The financial vice director and one of the jurists of the insurance company ASITO were remanded in custody. One day ago, the two and three more employees of the company were arrested on suspicion of appropriation and money laundering. The Buiucani Court accepted the anticorruption prosecutor’s application to hold the two on remand for 30 days and 25 days respectively. The other three persons will be investigated outside jail because they cooperated with the investigation bodies and admitted that they acted on the instructions of their superiors. These are all banned from leaving the domicile, IPN reports.
According to the National Anticorruption Center, it was established that the suspects, including decision makers of the company, pursued the goal of appropriating 9.5 million lei from the company, invoking a fictitious debt of ASITO to economic entities. Thus, falsifying a contract by which the company guaranteed to pay a debt to another company, the suspects managed to transfer 3.29 million lei from the accounts of ASITO to the accounts of this firm.
Later, the same group of persons organized the signing of a factious contract between the mentioned firm and an offshore company for the purchase of specialized equipment to the value of over US$ 560,000. Based on this contract, the suspects converted the sum of 3.29 million lei into dollars and transferred it fully to bank accounts opened in Russia. By this scheme, the persons intended to steal 9.5 million lei.
