Officers of the Ministry of the Interior's Fraud Investigations Division discovered a criminal group headed by a senior inspector of the State Main Tax Inspectorate. In a news conference on June 2, the Division's head Oleg Putuntica said the police officers have shadowed the group since the end of last year, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to Oleg Putuntica, two companies selling accessories for heating and gasification systems during the last few years reported a turnout higher than the value of the importation operations they performed. It was established that besides legal importation operations, the two companies purchased foreign accessories for heating and gasification systems from a biscuit selling company. For its part, this company in its financial accounts indicated that it bought the goods from another two companies that turned out to be nonexistent. According to the documents, the company exchanged biscuits for accessories, but in reality those operations did not take place. The money paid by the two Moldovan companies for the goods purchased from the biscuit selling company was paid back to them in several days minus 7% - 9% – the commission charged by the company. Oleg Putuntica said the employee of the State Main Tax Inspectorate is suspected of working out the scheme and facilitating the transactions. Another four members of the group, including a Ukrainian national, acted as intermediaries in transmitting the money. In 2009-2010, the two companies legalized goods to the value of about 50 million lei, causing damage to the state budget assessed at roughly 8 million lei.