The sum of €1 million belonging to a defendant in the bank fraud case entered the treasury accounts of the Criminal Assets Recovery Agency of the National Anticorruption Center. The money was transferred to bank accounts opened in the name of third persons after anticorruption prosecutors sequestrated the money, IPN reports.
As part of the investigation, tens of intermediaries and effective beneficiaries of the assets were identified. Real estate and luxury cars, planes, yachts, share capitals, banks accounts and other property to the value of about 3.4 billion lei were sequestrated.
There is over 70 million lei in the accounts of the Criminal Assets Recovery Agency at present. A month ago, the Agency transferred to the state 32 million lei that was confiscated based on a court decision in the €1.6 million smuggling case of the end of 2020.
The process of recovering the criminal assets is considered completed together with the taking by court of a confiscation decision. The final step, the sale of confiscated assets, is taken by bailiffs or the State Tax Service.
