A man investigated for money laundering was arrested at the Chisinau International Airport after he was extradited from the Netherlands. According to the National Anticorruption Center, the offender took part in the conversion and transfer of 1.6 million lei of a bank loan obtained from Banca de Economii (Savings Bank) to the account of a nonresident company in Cyprus, IPN reports.
It was established that the man, together with the effective beneficiary of the nonresident company in Cyprus and with other unidentified persons, ensured the conversion of money to dollars and its transfer to the account of that company. The man knew that the foreign entity will not fulfill an alleged commitment undertaken based on a fake contradict with the aim of hiding the illegal origin of the sum of 1.6 million lei. The money was part of a bank loan of 4.4 million lei released to a commercial organization based in Moldova by Banca de Economii. Among the beneficiaries is a Russian citizen.
The culprit was caught in the Netherlands and extradited to Moldova. He is now in custody.
