Prosecution groups consisting of prosecutors, prosecuting officers and investigation officers of the National Anticorruption Center were set up within the criminal cases started by the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office over the bank frauds. The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) said that it gives such details following erroneous or speculative statements made lately in the public sphere for the purpose of discrediting the investigations conducted with the aim of identifying and holding accountable all those involved in the thefts committed in the banking system of Moldova, IPN reports.
Given the transfrontier character of the investigated bank frauds, the necessity of interstate cooperation in the area of international assistance in criminal justice appeared. For the purpose, requests were made to the competent authorities of other states, such as Latvia, the United Nations and Ukraine. With the assistance of representatives of the Money Laundering Prevention and Combating Service of Latvia, FBI and the Department of Justice of the U.S., relevant information was obtained and this enabled to significantly advance the inquiry and to send to court a criminal case and to complete the investigation into other related cases in short periods of time.
According to the PGO, the cooperation of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office with representatives of the company Kroll is an important factor that allowed swiftly handling the evidence in this case.
The PGO calls on all those who possess information about this case to be responsible and obey the law and to answer prosecutors’ questions so that the presented data could help with the investigation.
