A woman living in Chitin au was sentenced to ten years in jail on three counts of swindle. In 2011-2016, the woman swindled over 765,000 lei out of five persons, IPN reports.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the woman took out a bank loan of 500,000 lei by pledging property that belonged to three persons cheated by her.
In another case, she persuaded the owner of an apartment situated in Chisinau to give her €500 for the flat to be privatized, but she used the money for own purposes and didn’t pay it back.
In the spring of 2016, on the pretext of engaging a person in a patisserie like business and invoking the need of new investments, the woman swindled this person out of 254,000 lei without fulfilling her promises and disappearing with the money.
When being questioned by prosecutors, the 44-year-old woman didn’t accept blame. The sentence can be challenged in a higher court.