CCEC stopped embezzlement of 500 million dollars

The Center for Fighting Economic Felonies and Corruption (CCEC) arrested the members of a transnational criminal group, suspected appropriation attempt of 500 million dollars by using false guarantee letters. According to CCEC, the group intended to get use 10 false guarantee letters, each of them representing 50 million dollars, claiming to be „issued” by the National Bank of Moldova on the name of a foreign citizen. While searching on the group members, citizens of Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Russian federation and Moldova, there were found different doubting acts, including the scanned application of BNM stamps, of the government and parliament of Moldova, as well as false signatures of certain high level officials, bank cheques of thousands of million of dollars. The employees of the Center set the procedure of scanned application of stamps as well as of false signatures of parliament’s speaker, prime minister, governor of the National Bank, vice-governors, minister of finance. They issued and submitted the letters to the Central Bank of Greece, as it were issued by the National Bank of Moldova, on the name of a citizen from Azerbaijan, who was supposed to extract 500 million dollars of the Central Bank of Greece. If they are deemed guilty, group members risk up to 25 years of imprisonment.