The ex-deputy head of the Money Laundering Prevention and Combating Service of the National Anticorruption Center Mihail Gofman didn’t present himself at the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office for questioning. Prosecutor Adriana Betisor said she does not know the reasons for the absence, IPN reports.

“It is regrettable because an increasing number of people had lately presented different hypotheses in the public sphere as to what happened at Banca de Economii, in the banking system. But when they are questioned at the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, these statements are no longer supported,” Adriana Betisor told the press.

Mihail Gofman is to be summoned additionally. If he does not appear again, he wil be subject to a constraint measure and could be even brought before the investigators by force.

Adriana Betisor referred also to the statements made by the ex-employee of Banca Sociala Sergiu Sagaidac, saying that she tried to contact him, but he was unavailable. Some 90% of the persons from the list presented by Sergiu Sagaidac have been already questioned in the case of Banca de Economii.

In a TV program, Mihail Gofman said the scheme to steal money from the Moldovan banking system was planned by services from outside the country, including from Russia, with the aim of gaining control over the foreign exchange reserves of Moldova and Moldovan politicians who were in power had been involved in this scheme.