The National Bank of Moldova (NBM) announces that on the evening of 6 March 2018 received the final investigation report on banking fraud from the companies Kroll and Steptoe & Johnson. The document contains information about the fraud that led to the insolvency of three banks of the Republic of Moldova: Banca de Economii S.A., Banca Socială S.A. and Unibank S.A..
The report, along with operative data on tracking fraudulent funds, will be transmitted next week by the Kroll representatives to the investigative bodies of the Republic of Moldova in accordance to the procedures approved with the international consortium.
A summary of the investigation report, which discloses how funds have been stolen and the countries where these funds circulated or reached, was published on 21 December 2017 on the NBM official webpage (http://bnm.md/ [1]). The summary is available in English [2] and Romanian [3] languages.
The representatives of the Kroll and Steptoe & Johnson companies confirmed the availability to collaborate with the investigative bodies in order to support the effort for recovering the fraudulent funds at the international level and to strengthen the evidence basis in the procedures initiated at the national level.