26 sacks of money seized at Andy's pizza and La placinte

The director and chief accountant of SRL Turbo-Plus, which owns the public eateries Andy's pizza and La placinte, will be investigated for major tax evasion, the head of the Economic Crime Division of the Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime (CCCEC) Iurie Ciorba announced in a news conference on April 8, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to Ciorba, no receipts were given to customers at the Andy's pizza and La placinte eateries after 7 P.M., only the check, and the cash register did not record the money collected afterward. So, only a part of the daily revenues were indicated in the financial records and not all the taxes were paid. The anticorruption officers started to inspect SRL Turbo-Plus after receiving complaints from the population. The investigations lasted for about one year and a half. On April 7, the police seized 26 sacks of money from two offices of the company. The money was not yet counted, but it is an estimated sum of 500,000 and 1 million lei. Asked why the investigations lasted for so long, Iurie Ciorba said the offices where the undeclared money was taken had been changed several times. Time was needed to collect the necessary information. The company used an automated accounting system that was destroyed when the police came. “When we entered the office, they saw what was happening through video cameras and managed to destroy the evidence in only several minutes. The financial records stored in the computer were deleted,” Iurie Ciorba said. He also said that nobody was yet arrested as the persons do not pose a social danger and do not shrink from making statements. Current and former employees of the company will be questioned during the inquiry. It was established that the employees knew about the company's working methods and were instructed what to do, but they did not have access to the database. Every waiter had a special bracelet that allowed opening the account to which the money collected from customers was transferred. Iurie Ciorba said the CCCEC does not know if Oleg Voronin, the son of the former head of state Vladimir Voronin, is involved in this business. Asked if more persons favoring this major tax evasion scheme could be behind the company's director, Ciorba said he cannot yet make public the information they possess. Under the law, the persons found guilty of tax evasion face up to three years in jail. Sources in the anteroom of Turbo-Plus told Info-Prim Neo that director Andrei Tranga will not make comments on this case.