Prosecutors investigate possibility of Viorel and Victor Topa being involved in raider attacks
The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office is considering the possibility of businessmen Viorel and Victor Topa being involved in the raider attacks on Agroindbank, Info-Prim Neo reports.
”For the time being, this is only a version. The evidence we possess includes only several copies of the documents showing that the Topa brothers are the owners of the offshore Merchant Outpost Company that is registered in Belize,” anticorruption prosecutor Viorel Morari said in a news conference.
He stated that the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office started to take steps after the Topa brothers issued a memoir, saying First Deputy Speaker Vlad Plahotniuc is behind the conspiracies against a number of financial institutions.
“We summoned the Topa brothers to the Prosecutor’s Office. I was to meet one of them, but did not manage to. Now that they are wanted, I don’t think they will appear before the prosecutors soon,” said Viorel Morari.
Viorel and Victor Topa have been recently convicted. Victor Topa was sentenced to 10 years in jail for obtaining property in large amounts by blackmail, while Viorel got eight years for releasing a delinquent loan when he headed Banca de Economii. The sentences were passed in the absence of the convicts. According to unofficial reports, they are in the custody of a European country.
