Six more people involved in bank fraud charged

13:08 | 07.12.2020 Category: Social

Chisinau, 7 December /MOLDPRES/- Six people, including former leaders of the three bankrupt banks, Savings Bank (Banca de Economii), Unibank and Social Bank and representatives of the Shor holding company have been officially charged with two counts.

According to the General Prosecutor's Office, the six are being investigated for large-scale fraud and money laundering in the interest of a criminal organization.

On Saturday and Sunday, magistrates admitted the prosecutors' requests, ordering the arrest of five persons for 30 days. After being questioned by prosecutors, four of them exercised their procedural right not to testify.

Another person in the case, who testified on the charges was placed under house arrest for a month.

The six accused were detained late last week by the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office and PCCOCS, being criminally investigated in the case on robbery of the banking system.

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