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The commission of inquiry into the robbing of Moldova’s banking system and the bank fraud will hold the first hearings on June 24. A list of 20 persons was compiled and among the first who will be questioned are minister of finance in 2009-2013 Veaceslav Negruța and head of the parliamentary commission on economy, budget and finance in 2009-2014 Veaceslav Ioniță, IPN reports.
In a news conference given after the second meeting of the commission, chairman Alexandr Slusari said the list of persons who will be questioned includes former and current politicians, functionaries and experts. “We hope more persons will be invited for questioning in several weeks,” stated the MP.
He noted the events that happened since 2013 until now are more or less clear, but more materials are needed for the period between 2010 and 2013 that preceded the state’s dispossession of controlling interest and the huge bank fraud.
As to the commission’s activity, Alexandr Slusari said the members’ access to the materials collected by the previous commissions of inquiry, of 2013 and 2015, is restricted. They made an approach to the Parliament’s archive for being issued with these documents, but they were told that the materials were transmitted to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Today the commission of inquiry decided to make two more requests, one to the National Bank of Moldova, which will be asked to facilitate the access to the Second Kroll Report in its full version, and the other one to the PGO, which will be asked to provide exhaustive information about the investigation into the fraud starting with 2014.
Alexandr Slusari said that despite the difficulties related to the access to materials, they started to receive documents about the bank fraud from a number of persons. “We have documents and copies that can help us elucidate those events,” he stated.
The commission formed of MPs of ACUM and the PSRM was set up on June 10.
