Prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) and anticorruption prosecutors, who form part of the special prosecution group, on May 28 ordered seizing documents from the head offices of a number of public institutions, including the National Bank of Moldova, the National Commission for Financial Markets, the Public Property Agency and the Ministry of Finance, IPN reports, quoting the PGO.

The measures are taken within the extended investigation into the case of stealing from Banca de Economii, ordered by Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin. Yesterday searches were carried out in the Parliament Building.

The National Bank’s estimates, confirmed by a report by the U.S. company Kroll, show 13.3 billion lei was stolen through bad loans from Banca de Economii, Banca Sociala and Unibank. According to the central bank’s governor Dorin Dragutanu, when the securities are sold, the losses will decrease to about 9 billion lei, which is about €450 million.