Translated text from Russian:
National Center for Combating Corruption (NPPM) in conjunction with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and U.S. colleagues uncovered a money laundering scheme in a large scale. Implementation of the scheme involved a local company – the market leader in the program Work & Travel. As reported by the Office, in the period 2010-2013 Moldovan citizens who participated in the program by the company, was transferred to the account of an offshore company $ 6 million, thus inflicting damage on the state budget of 15 million lei.
As part of the investigation found that the Moldovan company helped students establish contacts with employers from the U.S. was preparing documents for visa and left for America. However, payment for these services is not via a local company and offshore, which in this case led the company administrator from Moldova. Some of these are used to cover the salaries of employees of the company (from $ 500 to $ 2.5 million) and the remainder was redirected to the company’s management accounts in local and foreign banks. With this money, they bought real estate and cars class “luxury”.
NPPM together with prosecutors conducted several searches, including the building of the Moldovan company, during which found registration documents and printing of the non-resident company, bank card company employees used to get salary is not taxed, and other clues. An investigation was initiated criminal proceedings under Art. 243 (3) “Money laundering on a large scale” CP RM provides for five to ten years in prison. Now NPPM continues to cooperate with U.S. law enforcement agencies to expand the evidence base for the occasion.
Original news story (in Russian): Одна из кишиневских фирм Work&Travel «отмыла» $6 млн