By the end of this year, the Prosecutor General’s Office will issue the final indictment against high-ranking officials who were involved in the banking fraud. According to Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo, these are former functionaries who held executive posts at the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) and other categories of employees who allowed the banking system to implement dubious schemes, IPN reports.

Alexandr Stoianoglo noted he took into account the results of the commission of inquiry into the investigation of the banking fraud, which show that ex-Premier Iurie Leancă, former NBM governor Dorin Drăguțanu and former ministers Andrian Candu and Anatol Arapu committed a number of deviations.

“The Prosecutor General’s Office is collecting information about members of the National Committee for Financial Stability, the Surveillance Board of the NBM and particular employees of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economy and others so as to determine their involvement in the fraud,” Alexandr Stoianoglo stated in the program “Natalia Morari’s Politics” on TV8 channel.

Asked when the citizens of the Republic of Moldova will be familiarized with the final list of persons involved in the banking fraud and will be convicted, the prosecutor general said the first results will be visible towards the end of this year. The investigation into the banking fraud will yet last for several years.

“The case refers to thousands of episodes, millions of accounts that must be analyzed, property that should be tracked. Ewe must determine the whereabouts of the money and the beneficiaries. In many cases this is not possible yet. We have three-four interest groups and the investigation centers on them and on companies that are directly connected with them,” stated Alexandr Stoianoglo.