Frontier Solutions Company sent Thursday, July 21, to Eduard Harunjen, Acting Prosecutor General and Adriana Betisor, prosecutor at the Anti-Corruption Office  a letter  informing about the  initiation of a US investigation  into the theft  of billion in the banking system in Moldova, writes portal Agora.md that took possession of this document. Eduard Harunjen claims that he did not know about an investigation in the US, but he supposes that the investigations were started after prosecutors in Chisinau delegated a rogatory commission last year.

According to the letter, this law firm represents Mihail Gofman, former Deputy-Head of the Office for Preventing and Combating of Money Laundering within National Anticorruption Center, with regard to his work with  federal law enforcement officials and the U.S. Department of Justice. "Mr. Gofman is a witness in an active and ongoing US criminal investigation into the theft of over one billion US dollars from Moldovan banks", writes the letter of Frontier Solutions by which the authorities from Chisinau are asked to ensure safety of Mihail Gofman.

Eduard Harunjen claims that he did not know about an investigation initiated by the US. "I have not been informed yet about this investigation. We actually cooperate with US services on bank frauds. We delegated a rogatory commission and we organized several joint working sessions. I suppose that the investigation is started based on the rogatory commission that was delegated last year. When authorities from several states receive a rogatory commission, they are asked to take some actions, initiate their own investigation into documents, start hearings, etc", said the acting prosecutor general.

Sergiu Sagaidac, former head of the Money Laundering Prevention and the Monitoring of Transactions Section from Banca Sociala who previously made several disclosures about the bank fraud, wrote on the social network Facebook that the letter was supposed to be made public on Monday, July 25. "After the Anticorruption Prosecution and the General Prosecutor’s office received the letter, a number of actions were taken, including the forced hearing of Mihail Gofman at the  Anticorruption Prosecution", wrote  Sergiu Sagaidac in another post two days ago.

Meanwhile, the publication "Huffington Post" approached the issue of banking frauds in Moldova. "Much of Moldova’s National Bank reserves that have been used to prop up commercial banks came from, in part, a $1 billion tranche given to the country from the IMF. Now, in order to fill the hole in the National Bank tax increases or bond issue have been proposed, instead of the culprits repatriating the loot. In other words, taxpayer’s money from the U.S. and the EU, with the possible help from impoverished Moldovans, is used to line the pockets of some of Eastern Europe’s wealthiest oligarchs. To return these funds and to stop systemic money laundering, U.S. personal sanctions against Plahotniuc and his cronies, modeled on the Magnitsky List, would be a good start", writes the article.