Officers of the National Anticorruption Center and anticorruption prosecutors are carrying out searches within two criminal cases started over the release of bad loans by Banca de Economii and abuse of power by members of the Administration Board of Banca Sociala. The information was confirmed by the press officer of the National Anticorruption Center Angela Starinschi, IPN reports.
The searches are performed at companies based in the IPTEH Building in central Chisinau and at the homes of members of the administration boards of the two banks. The police are also searching the place of the former head of the Administration Board of Banca de Economii Ilan Shor. A number of persons were or will be yet escorted to the National Anticorruption Center for questioning. Ilan Shor is among them.
It was earlier reported that sums of millions of lei were stolen from Banca de Economii by providing bad loans to phantom companies. The scheme involved Banca Sociala and Unibank. A foreign company selected at a contest is to conduct a special investigation to determine where the money was transferred.
