A defendant, investigated by the NAC in a money laundering case, extradited from the Netherlands. The man was detained at Chisinau International Airport

A citizen of the Republic of Moldova, investigated by the National Anticorruption Center (NAC) in a money laundering case, was detained last night at Chisinau International Airport, after being extradited from the Netherlands. On 03.07.2023, the criminal investigation body of the NAC completed the criminal investigation in the criminal case accusing him of committing the crime of money laundering and submitted the case to the court, through the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, in the absence of the accused.

According to the investigated facts, the accused, in co-participation with the actual beneficiary of a non-resident company, as well as with other unidentified persons, knowing that the foreign entity will not execute an alleged commitment assumed on the basis of a fictitious contract, to disguise the illicit origin of the monetary means in the amount of 1,600,000 lei, which come from a bank loan in the amount of 4,400,000 lei offered to a commercial company from the Republic of Moldova by "Banca de Economii", ordered and ensured the conversion of the funds into US dollars and the transfer to them in the account of this non-resident company in Cyprus, among the beneficiaries of which there is also a citizen of the Russian Federation.

The accused was detained on the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and extradited to the authorities of the Republic of Moldova. He was placed in the NAC Detention Center, and the institution will inform the court in which the criminal case is pending.