The owners of two currency exchange facilities situated in Chisinau are suspected of illegal transactions with foreign currency. Offices of the National Investigations Inspectorate, in concert with employees of the Prosecutor General’s Office, carried out searches at these facilities and found the equivalent of US$300,000 in different currencies, whose origin couldn’t’ be explained, IPN reports.
In a news conference on March 5, prosecutor Corneliu Popescu said that the suspects are investigated outside prison. They face a fine of 40,000 to 100,000 or 4 to 7 years’ imprisonment for money laundering. They will be liable to another 3 to 10 years in prison if it’s proven that they had been involved in smuggling.
In November 2012, there was identified another criminal group that carried out illegal dealings in foreign currency, using clandestine rooms.
