BEM file: Five people to stand trial
The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office announces that it has completed the criminal investigation regarding five people accused of money laundering in particularly large proportions, fraud, but also acquiring a credit through fraud from Banca de Economii.
According to the prosecutors, the accused persons caused a damage of 11 million lei to the financial institution.
The law enforcement officers established that one of the accused, who is an employee of an expertise and consulting agency, in complicity with the administrator and founder of a company, drew up an evaluation report of an unfinished commercial building at a price four times lower than the market price.
Based on the document, they would have obtained a loan worth more than 42.5 million lei. The accused persons do not admit their guilt.
If found guilty, the accused face up to 12 years in prison.