The bailiff involved in the laundering of Russian money, who a year ago was acquitted by the Buiucani Court, was sentenced to five years in jail and banned from holding public posts for a period of ten years. The woman was accused of abuse of power with serious consequences. The judgment was passed by the Chisinau Appeals Court on June 9, IPN reports.

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, working in the district of the Centru bailiffs local office, the bailiff illegally executed orders made by Chisinau courts of law and by courts of the districts of Comrat, Causeni, Drochia, Ungheni, Telenesti and the District Economic Court, including by falsifying ordinances.

She also accepted applications to launch illegal execution procedures, instituting over 40 such procedures, in breach of the law. Through the agency of the Centru branch of BC “Moldinconbank” of Chisinau, where Veaceslav Platon is a majority shareholder, the bailiff ordered to collect over 200 billion lei from the correspondent accounts of Russian banks in favor of non-resident creditors.

The criminal case was sent to court in 2014. The Chisinau Appeals Court’s judgment can be appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice.