An economic agent based in Chisinau, which manages a network of restaurants, is investigated in a criminal case started over tax evasion and money laundering. This is suspected of creating a parallel accounting system and, by avoiding paying taxes to the state, of causing 13.9 million lei damage to the state budget, IPN reports.

According to the General Police Inspectorate, between 2021 and 2023, the economic agent, together with the accountant and the restaurant managers, created a tax evasion scheme through which receipts were issued to customers, instituting thus a parallel accounting system and avoiding paying taxes to the state.

Law enforcement officers searched the homes, transport units and restaurants belonging to the economic agent. Accounting documents, draft notebooks, sums of money, an electronic device for storing accounting data were detected and seized.

The investigation of the scheme continues. The General Police Inspectorate does not specify the name of the restaurant network or whether the suspects will be detained or not.