The Executive Board of the National Bank of Moldova (the NBM) has decided to impose penalties under the form of a fine to the members of the Board of Directors of B.C. “VICTORIABANK” S.A. holding office during the period subject to control.
The total amount of fines accounts for MDL 496,071.
Also, the members of the Board of Directors have received warnings about the non-admission of violations of regulatory acts in the future and the possibility of being subjected to severer sanctions if the irregularities found will repeatedly be committed.
The decision was made as a result of a complex on-site inspection conducted at the bank, during which there were found some violations of the Law on Financial Institutions, regulatory acts of the NBM, and the Law on Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing. Especially, the bank failed to comply with the prudential requirements relating to lending, foreign exchange regulations, risk concentration, assets classification and etc.