Substantial progress has been made in investigating the bank fraud, President Igor Dodon announced after the May 14 meeting of the Supreme Security Council. He noted that not only those who appeared at the final stage of the investigation will be held accountable, but also those who prepared and applied the legislation, while holding the posts of minister and member of the Financial Stability Committee, IPN reports.

“I want to inform you, without providing details today, that substantial progress has been made in investigating the bank fraud. Those who committed these violations, those who now look at us and understand what we are talking about and the people who expect concrete things from us… Dear people, you will see that all those to blame will be held accountable in the near future,” stated President Dodon.

He noted that concrete steps in this case will be taken in the immediate period. During the investigations of 2015-2019, the attempts to find those to blame and to return the money to the state were mimicked.
 
The official reminded that the parliamentary investigation commission last year presented a report centering on those who planned the theft, including members of the Financial Stability Committee.

Igor Dodon also said that the bank theft was the most serious crime committed against the people throughout the country’s independence period and the Prosecutor General’s Office and the investigation bodies during the last three months charged ten bankers and carried out searches at a number of institutions.