The Republic of Moldova will ask a number of international institutions to investigate the fraud committed in the Moldovan banking system as a matter of urgency so as to recover a sum of 8 billion lei, President Igor Dodon said after the June 6 meeting of the Supreme Security Council that discussed the bank fraud, IPN reports.

Igor Dodon said the states to which the embezzled money was transferred or that were transited by this are known. “If we do not start the civil procedures until November 2017, we will be unable to recover the money this way. We decided to hasten the investigation procedures by external ways and to recommend the given institutions to launch these procedures as a matter of urgency, until September, or October at the latest. The statute of limitations in many of these cases is November 2017,” stated Igor Dodon.

He also said that in the meeting of the Supreme Security Council he requested to carry out additional examinations to see if particular decision makers were involved in the bank fraud during the last few years. He referred to the governor and deputy governor of the central bank. Information was also asked about the possibility of holding accountable the administration of the Government at different stages, when the decisions by which the money was embezzled were taken. “I gave them a list of persons who I consider were involved,” stated President Dodon.

He also said that he asked to determine if particular banks that transferred several billion lei to Banca de Economii three days before the bank fraud acted in collusion and if the state-owned enterprises indeed transferred money to Banca de Economii, Banca Sociala and Unibank in October – November 2014.

“If those who must do their job do not do it for different reasons, there is no statute of limitations in this case and I will raise these subjects in a year, two or three,” he stated.

According to Igor Dodon, 1 billion lei of the embezzled funds was recovered at internal level, while the sequestrated assets were valued at over 1 billion lei. The stolen money will be recovered from other sources too, in the total amount of almost 4 billion lei.