The inter-ministerial platform for monitoring and controlling the investigation of the banking fraud and for recovering the embezzled funds was set up to disperse personal responsibility and to prevent the real investigation of the case and analysis of the circumstances and conditions that led to the commission of the theft, said experts invited to the talk show “Expertise hour” on Jurnal TV channel, IPN reports.

Visarion Cheshuev, a member of the Economic Council working under President Igor Dodon, said the meeting of the standing committee for monitoring cases of increased social interest that was called by Premier Pavel Filip to discuss the “theft of the century” was convened on the insistence of foreign donors that permanently ask the authorities why nothing is done to recover the money. “They wanted to show that the Government intends to do something,” he stated.

According to Visarion Cheshuev, they started to pave the way for the theft in 2010, by amending the legislation. “They acted cunningly and deceitfully to ease this theft by creating conditions for taking out loans and for not repaying them. About 15 amendments were made during 2010-2014,” he said.

Stefan Gligor, programs director at the Center for Politics and Reforms, said the tendency to hide things in the case of the embezzlement of the central bank’s reserves is chronic and systemic. “It is covered by an aura of confidentiality and the people are made to hide all its aspects in the prosecution and conviction of persons who are presented as responsible for the organization of this theft and as its beneficiaries,” he stated.

According to Stefan Gligor, this is a well-organized theft about which they speak randomly, not systemically. “We haven’t yet seen a thorough analysis that would clearly explain what this massive operation that involved the amendment of the legislation and appointment of persons to key posts was,” he said.

In the September 18 meeting of the standing committee for monitoring cases of increased social interest that was convoked by Prime Minister Pavel Filip, it was decided to create an inter-institutional platform for monitoring and controlling the investigation of the banking fraud and for recovering the embezzled funds in the country and abroad in accordance with the priority reform action roadmap that was signed by the Government and Parliament on July 5 this year.