Young men suspected of laundering US$1million will be investigated on the outside

The Chisinau Court of Appeals accepted the application of two young men arrested by the Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime for 20 years on suspicion of laundering US$1 million. Now the entire group suspected of involvement in this offense will be investigated on the outside, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting the Center. Earlier, anticorruption officers arrested two young men on money laundering charges. Another three young men who are suspected of forming part of the same group were investigated on the outside. The Moldovan young men organized fraudulent auctions over the Internet and appropriated money from foreign citizens. They offered luxury cars, jewelry and other precious things for sale. The buyers transferred the money to accounts opened by the Moldovans with forged passports in different banks in the U.S., but remained without their purchases. Form the U.S. banks, the money was transferred to accounts opened in Moldovan banks. On July 9, with the help of a Moldovan commercial bank, the anticorruption officers transferred money to the accounts of one of the suspects and later arrested him. The swindlers appropriated an estimated US$1 million. The suspects are aged between 20 and 23. They face five to ten years in jail.