A parliamentary commission of inquiry is to be set up to elucidate the circumstances that led to the laundering of dirty money through courts of law and financial-banking institutions of the Republic of Moldova. Such a proposal was formulated by the parliamentary group of the Party “Dignity and Truth Platform” in the November 19 sitting of Parliament, IPN reports.

MP Inga Grigoriu said that criminal organizations, businessmen operating in the real estate and banking sectors of the Russian Federation in 2010 and 2014 transferred over US$20 billion from dirty funds through the laundering complex consisting of tens of offshore companies, banks and proxy agents.

“Later, the process was “legalized” by judges of the Republic of Moldova and the laundered money was distributed in EU member states. This way the Republic of Moldova was used both to ensure legal protection and to “legalize” the process of laundering money and to transfer money to financial systems of the European Union. The “Russian laundry” involved over 20 judges of 15 courts of law of the Republic of Moldova,” stated the MP.

Under the draft decision, the commission of inquiry will engage all the responsible state institutions in its activity, will question the involved sides and persons and will present a report in Parliament within 90 days.

The draft decision on the constitution of the commission of inquiry is to be examined at one of the next sittings of Parliament.