The Chisinau Appeals Court ruled that businessmen Vladimir Belschi and Ivan Tomaily, who were recently arrested in the case of the bad loans released by Banca de Economii (BEM), will be held in the remand unit of the National Anticorruption Center, IPN reports.

The Center’s press officer Angela Starinschi said the court decided that Belschi will be transferred to the remand unit from under house arrest and that Tomaily will remain under arrest, as the Buiucani Court ruled, even if his lawyers asked that he be set free.

Also today, within the extended investigation into the case of BEM, prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office and anticorruption prosecutors, who form part of the special prosecution group, ordered seizing documents from the head offices of a number of public institutions, including the National Bank of Moldova, the National Commission for Financial Markets, the Public Property Agency and the Ministry of Finance.