The Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime (CCCEC) has investigated 429 economic and financial crimes during January-November this year, Info-Prim Neo reports. In a press release, the CCCEC says that 141 offences of the total number of economic crimes concerned the manufacture and putting of forged cards into circulation, 134 – obtaining of bank loans by fraud, 59 – fiscal evasion, 17 – appropriation of secured property, 15 –money forgery, 15 – contraband etc. In the same period, the Center took a number of measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. After becoming a fully-fledged member of the Egmont Group on May 27, 2008, the CCCEC can exchange information on money laundering and terrorist financing with the similar services of the member states and identify the flows of suspect money. The Center managed to stop the activity of a number of illegal companies and transferred 1.3 million lei to the budget. It sequestrated 2.9 million lei from six bank accounts after investigating cases of manufacture and putting of bank cards into circulation, the communiqué says.