A group of 5 people, made up of bank employees and insolvency administrators, was detained by the National Anticorruption Center (NAC) and Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office (APO), following the intelligence support provided by the Security and Intelligence Service.
Five persons, including two employees of a commercial bank and three authorized administrators, were detained by the NAC and anticorruption prosecutors, after the searches carried out this morning. The suspects are being investigated in several cases of money laundering, fraud, abuse of office and forgery, being suspected of having illegally alienated dozens of assets pledged or mortgaged to the bank, thus causing damages of millions to clients.
According to the materials of the investigation and preliminary investigations, it was established that starting in 2017 a group of authorized administrators, together with two employees of a financial institution, organized a criminal plan aimed to deprive bank debtors of their movable and immovable assets pledged or mortgaged to the bank. Even though the bank sold all the debts to some foreign companies and had no right to the pledged assets, the suspects continued to use the assets and even alienate them, by deceit.
During the criminal investigation, it was also found that several pledged assets were undervalued and sold at prices much lower than their real value, and the buyers were people affiliated with the criminal group. Only in one case, the group would have managed to cause a damage of more than 10 million lei for a house undervaluation. The investigators claim that the number of illegally alienated assets and the damages to the injured parties could increase to tens of millions of euros, and other people are also involved in the scheme.
Thus, for October 7, 19 searches were authorized at homes, work offices and cars used by the suspects, as well as criminal prosecution actions in some bank offices. As a result, three authorized administrators and two bank employees were detained for 72 hours.