Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin ordered extending the investigations into the frauds committed in the financial-banking sector. He made such an instruction in a meeting where the prosecutors responsible for investigating these frauds presented reports, IPN reports.

Corneliu Gurin asked immediately and thoroughly assessing the relevant aspects, including the actions and omissions of the persons in charge of the responsible public institutions. A number of prosecutors and experts with experience in investigating serious and exceptionally serious crimes are to be involved in this activity. The assessment results will be presented to the prosecutor general in the shortest period of time possible, with the necessary procedural proposals.

Former minister of finance Veaceslav Negruta said the money was actually stolen not from Banca de Economii, Unibank and Banca Sociala, but from the reserves of the National Bank of Moldova. According to him, high-ranking officials from all the governments have been involved in this theft, starting with 2005. Negruta noted that he informed the state institutions about the developments in 2013, but no reaction followed.