The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office organized searches at a number of commercial banks and an insurance company in the morning of July 25. The Office’s chief Viorel Morari told a press briefing that the materials discovered within the searches reveal a connection between the extended investigation into the theft of the billion and the transiting through a Moldovan bank of money from another country based on court orders. The given actions were planned by one and the same person, IPN reports.

The prosecutors carried out searches at Victoriabank, Moldincombank, Moldova Agroindbank and the insurance company Asito. Viorel Morari said that two officials of Moldincombank were arrested and are being questioned. Another two employees of the same bank will be summoned for questioning. Measures are being taken to localize the managers of five companies that illegally obtained three bank loans.

“A group of legal entities managed by intermediaries illegally obtained loans from a bank by order of a private individual. Afterward, these loans were repaid by a loan raised from Banca de Economii,” stated Viorel Morari. According to him, the private individual is former MP Veaceslav Platon, who was indicted and is suspected of appropriating over 800 million lei. This was put on the wanted list and is to be arrested for 30 days.