A number of persons from the municipality of Chisinau implemented a scheme to legalize ill-gotten gains. During only a year and a half, the culprits illegally obtained at least 5.3 million lei. A suspect was arrested for 72 hours, IPN reports.

The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office said searches were carried out in at least ten locations in this case of money laundering. Those involved registered a number of legal entities in the name of different founders. The companies were actually managed by one and the same person and these had common addresses, while the subdivisions were based at three addresses in the municipality of Chisinau.

Money from one of the companies that provided IT services was illegally transferred to the other investigated legal entities. That was money obtained illegally by avoiding paying taxes to the state and by performing fictitious transactions with other legal entities. The sums were introduced in legal circulation on the pretext of providing particular services.

As a result of the searches, there were seized documents, memory cards, stamps and other objects related to the investigated case.