Two individuals are investigated by the NAC and the anti-corruption prosecutors for forgery of documents and money laundering in the context of the alienation of a building in the center of the capital

Two men are under criminal investigation in cases of document forgery and money laundering, after they allegedly organized the alienation of a building in the center of Chisinau with tax evasion. As a result of the transaction, they would not have paid tax obligations.

According to the case materials, during November 2015, the two persons identified an intermediary whom they determined in exchange for a sum of money to register in his name a company that dealt with the purchase of a building in the center of Chisinau for the price of 2 379 739 lei. Later, by forging the intermediary's signature and on his behalf, the de facto beneficiaries would have registered multiple financial transactions, and later alienated the property at the price of 8,574,368 lei, without paying state taxes. This amount represents the individual's income tax, obtained from the sale of the property.

During the investigations, it was found that the intermediary would not have known about the mentioned financial transactions, all of which were executed by the two individuals. At the end of last week, the NAC officers carried out 14 searches at the homes of the suspects, from where they picked up documents and the mobile phones of the suspects. Currently, both people are being investigated al large.

The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office is conducting the criminal investigation.

We remind that every person who has been charged shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.