The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office is verifying the information according to which the last year attempt to appropriate 28% of shares in Moldova-Agroindbank (MAIB) was planned by businessmen Victor and Viorel Topa, as the real owners of Merchant Outpost Company, the institution’s deputy head Viorel Morari has told Info-Prim Neo. He was contacted at the suggestion of the representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office, who, in a news conference on January 17, was asked to pronounce on the investigation into the raider attack and on the recent press reports that the mentioned businessmen own Merchant Outpost Company. “I can neither refute nor confirm this information. I ordered verifying the information, but we face problems as we need to contact the authorities of other states through the rogatory commission. It is very hard,” said Viorel Morari. He also said that the injured party is a problem in the case of Moldova-Agroindbank. “We don’t who the victims are. We created a rogatory commission in the Netherlands and Slovenia, but no answer came yet,” he stated. Asked when the results of the investigation into the raider attacks of last year will be made public, the prosecutor said a news conference will be given immediately after the necessary information is collected. As a result of a trial last summer, the Supreme Court of Justice returned the shares in Moldova Agroindbank to the rightful owners, quashing the decision of the Causeni court, whereby they were dispossessed of shareholdings. The representatives of Merchant Outpost Company said they will appeal the Court’s decision to the ECHR. Last week, the press published documents sowing that Victor and Viorel Topa were behind the raider attack on Moldova-Agroindbank. Earlier, Turcan Cazac Law Firm informed in a communiqué that the group of six investors from Slovenia and the Netherlands held combined 285,386 shares representing circa 28% of all shares issued by MAIB. Until Wednesday’s hearing of the Supreme Court of Justice, 240,506 of shares were registered under the name of Global Systems Corp. (Belize), and 44,880 shares are registered under the name of Merchant Outpost Company (Seychelles). Belize and Seychelles are offshore jurisdictions and under the Moldovan Law on Financial Institutions, companies registered in offshore jurisdictions are prohibited from owning in aggregate more than 5% of voting shares in a bank. In a bid to move these shares to a different company, parties were seeking for the shares held jointly by Global Systems Corp. (Belize) and Merchant Outpost Company (Seychelles) to be transferred to Creative Production, Inc.