A 38-year-old man from Tiraspol was detained in Chisinau on suspicion of infringing copyright and related rights. He is also being investigated for money laundering on a particularly large scale. The arrest took place at Chisinau International Airport as he was entering the country, IPN reports.
According to the General Inspectorate of Police, the criminal case was opened in 2024. It was established that from 2022 to the present, the suspect, while on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, was selling pirated products through an online store. They belonged to an international company, and as a result of the illegality, the man managed to obtain income in the amount of about five million dollars.
As a result of the criminal proceedings, sums of money in foreign currency (700 euros, 100 dollars, 57 750 rubles), bank cards, mobile phones, as well as information storage devices, documents and records relevant to the investigation were seized.
The suspect was detained for 72 hours. Under current legislation, a person guilty of such an offense is liable to imprisonment from 5 to 10 years.
