A 61-year-old man was sentenced to 8 years and 7 months in jail for fraud with the appropriation of goods worth about half a million lei. He was also banned from working in the financial sector for a period of 5 years. IPN reports.
According to prosecutors in Fălești, between April and May 2019, the defendant, pursuing the goal of illegally acquiring another person's assets, posed as the representative of a company. Under the pretext of purchasing chemical products in agriculture and corn seeds, he used false contracts, allegedly signed by the company's administrator who was actually dead at that time. The man negotiated the sale of several types of herbicides, as well as several tonnes of corn worth a total of about half a million lei.
After receiving the goods, he appropriated them without paying for them. After that, he sold them to third parties.
At the end of 2022, the defendant dispossessed a man of his car, using similar methods of deception. The defendant pleaded not guilty and refused to make statements at the hearing. The sentence can be appealed to the Balti Court of Appeals.
