Veaceslav Platon's indictment file was finalized and sent to court, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office announced in a press release. He is accused in particular of  manufacturing and putting into circulation fake cards, in the interest of a criminal organization, and money laundering, IPN reports.

According to investigators, at the beginning of 2013, Veaceslav Platon, holding, through intermediaries - individuals and legal entities- the majority package of shares of the "Moldindconbank" Commercial Bank acquired, under unknown circumstances, the copy of the identity documents of a Supreme Court judge. Through accomplices, he allegedly opened at a bank abroad a deposit account on behalf of the judge, on which he deposited the amount of 300 thousand euros.

Subsequently, using the fake bank card and the copy of the identity documents on the name of the judge, the defendant ordered to put the card into circulation, without the judge knowing this, and withdrew a total 297 thousand of dollars in 99 operations.

Under these charges, Platon faces up to 10 years in prison.

The businessman and former deputy Veaceslav Platon was detained in July 2016, for fraud and money laundering in particularly large amounts, which caused Banca de Economii a damage of over 800 million lei. The businessman was sentenced to 30 years in prison on the basis of two criminal cases and serves his sentence in Prison 13.