Representatives from Kroll and Steptoe & Johnson met with representatives of the NBM, the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, the Anticorruption Centre and the Agency for the Recovery of Criminal Assets in Chisinau on 20 July 2017.
The purpose of the meeting was to agree on a comprehensive recovery strategy to ensure that, going forward, there is close co-operation and the sharing of information to help to maximize any recovery steps and to collect evidence for to assist with criminal prosecutions worldwide.
The strategy remains focused on initiating legal proceedings before the end of the year in key jurisdictions where the fraud funds have already been traced or where the wrongdoers (and those that facilitated the wrongdoing) are located or transact business. In addition, proceedings will be initiated against third parties for further information and documents to trace the remainder of the stolen funds.
Kroll explained that they expect to be in a position to provide with its second report by the end of October 2017. NBM intends to publish a summary of that report later this year, subject to issues of confidentiality.