The National Bank of Moldova (NBM) said that it showed openness, cooperation and transparency in the relations with all the state institutions that asked for information about the bank fraud. The investigation bodies were provided with large volumes of relevant documents, including highly-qualified specialists so that these offer the necessary assistance in the investigation of the fraud, IPN reports.

In a press release, the central bank says that it furnished more information than it was asked to provide: over 14 TB (terabyte) of data in electronic format, which contain millions of files. Out of these, over 12 TB of data were seized and secured by the NBM from the banks under liquidation. There was also presented information on paper, in the volume of nearly 9,000 files.

“The NBM cannot understand what the purpose of the recent statements made about the central bank is when the investigation bodies were furnished with enormous volumes of relevant documents, including highly-qualified specialists so that these offer the necessary assistance in the investigation of the fraud. The National Bank not only does not hide anything. On the contrary, it has made effort to ensure that all the available materials were made known. If it determines that information was hidden, the involved persons will be brought to justice,” the central bank said in a press release.

Possibly, the NBM’s reaction comes also after anticorruption prosecutor Octavian Yakimovscki in a TV program said that they met with particular difficulties in the cooperation with the National Bank in the investigation of the bank fraud and the central bank had the servers of the three robbed banks, but these were found by prosecutors only after searches were conducted. According to the prosecutor, the investigation of the bank fraud is a complex and long-lasting process as the prosecutors weren’t initiated into the financial-banking sector, while the National Bank, which has professionals in the field, dallied any cooperation.