Two men convicted of money laundering
- 01.10.2010 16:50
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Two young persons aged 23 and 25 were fined 100,000 lei and given five years' probation for money laundering, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a communique from the Prosecutor General's Office.
The young men were accused of laundering over US$300,000. The about US$30,000 identified in culprits' accounts have been seized.
The Moldovan young men, in complicity with other persons, organized fraudulent auctions over the Internet in November 2009 - June 2010 and appropriated money from U.S. and Irish citizens. They offered luxury cars, jewelry and other precious things for sale.
The buyers transferred the money to accounts opened by the Moldovans with forged passports in different banks in the U.S., but remained without their purchases. From the U.S. banks, the money was transferred to accounts opened with Moldovan banks. The swindlers appropriated US$307,020.
