Some of Plahotniuc's accomplices in the raider attacks, arrested or referred to court by prosecutors

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Some of Plahotniuc's accomplices in the raider attacks, arrested or referred to court by prosecutors:

• Emma Tabirta, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Moldova and one of Plahotniuc's accomplices in raider attacks on banks. The prosecutors referred the case to court, as shown below in more detail;
• Olga Bondarciuc, Plahotniuc's inner circle personal notary. She is indicted for "falsifying public documents in the interest of a criminal organisation led by Plahotniuc and knowingly presenting false statements as a witness". Bondarciuc was extradited from Belgium. The prosecutors arrested her and referred the case to court.
  
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  – Plahotniuc's former notary, Olga Bondarciuc, is on the dock. She is accused on two counts;
  – Plahotniuc's personal notary will be brought before justice;
  
• Olga Dnestrean, Plahotniuc's confidant in raider attacks and ownership registration. She is accused of "fraud in particularly large proportions in the interest of a criminal organisation, and directly in the interest of Vladimir Plahotniuc." Dnestrean was arrested by the prosecutors.
  
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  – Name and details of those detained by the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office in the case of Bank Fraud;
  – Another old assistant of Plahotniuc was detained in the case of "bank fraud";
  – Press release: The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office detained another person in the "Bank Fraud" case;
  
• Vladimir Andronachi, Plahotniuc's confidant for financial transactions and negotiations within the raider attacks. He was on the international wanted list and has now been expelled from Ukraine and arrested by Moldovan police at the entrance to Moldova. On 2 November 2002, the prosecutors officially charged Vladimir Andronachi. According to the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, in this case, part of the amount embezzled through the scam committed by Andronachi was used to purchase a private jet for Vladimir Plahotniuc. Referring to this episode with Plahotniuc, the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office recalls that in August 2022 it completed the investigations and requested the investigating judge to send the criminal case to court in the absence of the accused.
  
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  – Vladimir Andronachi, detained upon entering the Republic of Moldova. The ex-crony of the fugitive oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc was wanted internationally;
  – Vladimir Andronachi, the internationally wanted fugitive, detained at the border with the Republic of Moldova;
  – Former Member of Moldovan Parliament Vladimir Andronachi was detained at the border;
  – The press release of the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office regarding the detention of Vladimir Andronachi.
  

The aforementioned names appear in the cases of raider attacks against the Topas.

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Following are details of the criminal case against the Governor and Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Moldova, Dorin Dragutanu and Emma Tabirta.

The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office informs that today, 22 September 2022, a new episode of the criminal file generically named "Bank fraud" has been referred to court. The former governor and two former deputy governors of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) have been charged in this criminal case.

They are accused of complicity in the commission of the crime of fraud, committed with the use of official position, by a criminal organisation, in particularly large proportions (art. 42, art. 190 par. (5) of the Criminal Code), as well as of participation in money laundering, committed by several people, using official position, by a criminal organisation, in particularly large proportions (art. 42 par.(5), art. 243 par.(3) of the Criminal Code).

According to the indictment, during 2014, the former governor of the NBM, as well as two former deputy governors, acting in the interests of the criminal organisation led by Vladimir Plahotniuc and other persons in the process of identification, devised and implemented a well determined plan of the embezzlement of financial means from the national banking system in particularly large proportions.

We specify that, according to the administered evidence, the prosecutors found that the criminal organisation led by Vladimir Plahotniuc was composed of several organised criminal sub-groups, whose members were controlling through interposed proxies the banks "Unibank" S.A., "Banca Socială" S.A., and Banca de Economii S.A.

Thus, during 2014, the governor of the NBM, as well as his two deputies, as persons affiliated with the criminal organisation, removed the legal obstacles and provided the necessary tools to carry out the embezzlement of money through "Unibank" S.A., "Banca Socială" S.A., and Banca de Economii S.A., including by approving of the persons, affiliated with the organised criminal group led by Ilan Șor, into the management bodies of the mentioned banks, and by not intervening in the flawed activity of these banks.

Hence, these actions allowed the members of the criminal organisation to embezzle money in the equivalent amount of approximately 2,544,782,105.6 lei and to integrate the embezzled money into the legal circuit of the Republic of Moldova and other states.

Subsequently, the anti-corruption prosecutors, with the authorisation of the investigating judge, in order to repair the damage caused by the crime and aiming the possible special confiscation, seized the assets of the former governor of the NBM and his deputies in a total amount of 4.164.732.31 lei.

As regards the second former deputy governor of the NBM, we inform that at this moment the criminal investigation could not be completed due to the accused's location abroad. In this respect, the prosecutors sent a rogatory commission to the country of the accused's location in order to be served with the formulated accusation.

The original statement is here.

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Also to this subject:

The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office has referred today to court a new episode of the criminal case generically called "Bank fraud", in which the former governor of the National Bank of Moldova, Dorin Drăguțanu, and two his deputies, Ion Sturzu and Emma Tăbîrță, are charged with criminal offences. According to the indictment, they were acting in the interests of the criminal organisation led by Vladimir Plahotniuc.

Previously, on 5 July 2022, The Chisinau Court issued an arrest warrant for 30 days in the name of Vladimir Plahotniuc:

Arrest warrant in the name of Vladimir Plahotniuc, in another case:

Chisinau Court, Ciocana headquarters, issued a 30-day arrest warrant in the name of the former chairman of the Democratic Party of Moldova (DPM), Vladimir Plahotniuc, charged in the "Metalferos" case.

It is to mention that the former DPM leader, Vladimir Plahotniuc, was charged in the "MetalFeros" case in November 2021.

The Moldovan authorities wanted Plahotniuc in 2019 and opened several cases against him, accusing him, among other things, of fraud, money laundering and organised crime, including profiting from the looting of Moldovan banks in 2014.

Later, the General Prosecutor's Office announced that Interpol refused to put Plahotniuc on international search and decided to delete his data from the institution's databases. At the moment, Vladimir Plahotniuc is announced in national and interstate search.