The court authorized the seizure “for the purpose of repairing the damage caused by a crime” of the assets of B.C. “Victoriabank”. The decision comes after information was circulated in the press last week regarding the prosecutors’ intention to seize the headquarters and the corresponding accounts of a bank in the Republic of Moldova, SafeNews.md reports, referring to deschide.md.
Thus, the seizures were applied on cars, real estate, state bonds and their nominal values in the total amount of about 2.3 billion lei. We remind you that the journalist Dumitru Ciorici announced that after Veaceslav Platon was released from prison, one of the largest banks in the Republic of Moldova, purchased by foreign investors, “seems to have problems”.
“Unofficial information says that the prosecutor’s office has requested the seizure of 2.3 billion lei (about 117 million EUR) in relation to the bank’s administration. Because the amount is very large, it was ordered to apply the seizure on the central office of the bank, but also on the corresponding accounts. It is not yet clear if this has already happened, because, from unofficial banking sources, those from the Agency for the Recovery of Criminal Assets (ARBI) would have understood the great resonance of the case and try first of all to understand what repercussions such a action would have “, writes Ciorici on Telegram.
Subsequently, the General Prosecutor’s Office came with a press release, in reaction to the information that appeared in the media.
“Prosecutors’ investigations are strictly legal, the efforts of law enforcement being aimed at documenting, within the limits of the criminal law, identifying and prosecuting all those involved in the robbery of the national banking system, and last but not least – recovering the damage caused to the state and its citizens. In this regard, we would like to inform you that, in the near future, the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office (APO) will bring to justice some episodes regarding banking fraud, about which the APO will further inform, within the limits allowed by the law, not to affect the further development of the investigations on this case ”, it was mentioned in the press release of the General Prosecutor’s Office.
It should be noted that before the release of Veaceslav Platon from prison, several videos were published in the press with Veaceslav Platon from the hearing before the prosecutors, in which the General Prosecutor Alexandr Stoianoglo was conducting the interogation.
In one of the recordings, Platon says that “he should enter Victoriabank”, given that the rightful shareholder in Romania – Banca Transilvania should be left without the package of shares.
We publish below an excerpt from the magistrates’ decision admitting the application of the seizure on the “Victoriabank” assets.
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