The Inquiry Commission investigating the bank fraud established that, after the Government approved state guarantees on 9.5 billion lei bail-out loans issued by the National Bank of Moldova, the three banks operated without a special state management and withdrew huge amounts of money from the banking system of Moldova.

"Therefore, the Government’s and National Bank’s management acted at the time with gross negligence at least, not ensuring any control over the BEM, Unibank and Social Bank, immediately after granting of state guarantees. We remind that the state guarantees were subsequently transformed into state debt and imposed on citizens with a 5% interest”, MP Alexandru Slusari, the Commission chair, writes in a Facebook post.

Based on its conclusions, the Commission requested the prosecution of Iurie Leancă, Dorin Drăguțanu, Andrian Candu and Anatol Arapu for negligence in office.