A person featured in the “bank fraud” case, who had been put on the wanted list, was caught at the Leușeni-Albița state border crossing point. The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office said the man is accused of complicity in money laundering in the interests of a criminal organization, IPN reports.

The 44-year-old man was detained by the search unit of the National Anticorruption Center under a court warrant issued on April 1, 2022 in the “bank fraud” case.

The person is accused of complicity in money laundering in the interests of an organization. It goes to the conversion and transfer of US$600,000 obtained illegally from SA Banca de Economii, in November 2014. After a series of suspicious transactions and transfers to the accounts of non-resident and resident companies, the money was introduced into the legal circuit of the Republic of Moldova.

In March 2023, the criminal case against the given person was sent to court by the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, applying the Criminal Procedure Code’s provisions that allow completing the investigation in the absence of the accused.

The person will be held on remand at Penitentiary No. 13 for a period of 30 days.

The next hearing was set to take place on January 11, starting at 12 noon, at the Buiucani Court of Chisinau.