The period during which the activities and transactions with goods, including financial resources, of private individuals and legal entities penalized by the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) are banned was extended for 30 days by the Commission for Exceptional Situations, IPN reports.

According to the Commission, the given decisions will be taken by the Service for the Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering, while the State Tax Service will annul the applied measures if the persons are struck of the list of penalized persons.

At the end of last October, the Commission for Exceptional Situations approved a new mechanism for monitoring the actions of persons put on the U.S. sanctions list. Under this, the authorities must take increased precautionary measures with regard to the transactions that do not correspond to the daily activities of persons put on the sanctions list and of persons suspected of being associated with these. The list of the latter persons is compiled and updated by the SIS that will cooperate in this regard with the Service for the Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering, the National Bank of Moldova and other public authorities with related duties.