{"id":442566,"date":"2016-09-22T19:21:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=442566"},"modified":"2016-09-22T19:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T19:21:24","slug":"anti-corruption-prosecution-office-moldova-investigated-judges-involved-laundering-20-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/anti-corruption-prosecution-office-moldova-investigated-judges-involved-laundering-20-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Corruption Prosecution Office of Moldova: Investigated judges involved in laundering over $20 billions"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

On September 22nd, the Buiucani Court of Chi\u0219in\u0103u issued arrest mandates of 30 days for 12 former and current judges and 3 bailiffs, out the 18 retained on September 20th<\/a> within the case of the Russian Laundromat. The Court will decide on the arrest of other three magistrates on Friday, September 23rd. <\/p>\n

According to the Anti-Corruption Prosecution Office and the Anti-Corruption Center, 51 searches have been conducted by approximately 60 officers in the offices, homes and cars of these magistrates, accused of “complicity in money laundering”.<\/p>\n

“It is about the laundering of more than 20 billion US dollars, that were taken through some documents faked by bailiffs. The cases are part of a series of penal files launched on the scheme of money laundering through the Republic of Moldova in 2014. The scheme took place through several off-shore companies and companies from Russia. So far, we don’t own information about where the money went to”<\/em>, declared the Anti-Corruption Prosecution Office head, Viorel Morari. <\/p>\n

The scheme revealed by prosecutors show that hundreds of millions of US dollars were transferred from Russian companies, through accounts at Moldindconbank, as guarantees for the Moldovan guarantee persons. The latter, in their turn, were guaranteeing the supposed return of loan from a debtor to an off-shore creditor. The creditor was suing the Moldovan guarantee person in a court in Moldova, asking for the return of the money by allegedly submitting fake contracts. As a result, the guarantee person was forced to make the Russian companies to pay with no guarantee of getting the resources back. <\/p>\n

The investigated magistrates can be imprisoned for 5 to 10 years.
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