338m euros laundered this year

The National Office for the Prevention and Fighting of Money Laundering (ONPCSB) has tracked transactions “recycling” 338 million euros, since the beginning of this year, stated Iulian Dragomir, chairman of the institution. “The main sources the money came from were tax evasion (45% of registered cases), fraud in the financial-banking sector (18% of cases), fraudulent bankruptcy and the illegal reimbursement of VAT,” said Dragomir. ONPCSB chairman stated that, since the beginning of this year, 319 notifications have been sent to the Prosecutor’s Office within the High Court of Justice and Cassation. Dragomir stated that he had decided, together with general prosecutor Ilie Botos, that experts from the Office should be delegated to Prosecutor’s Offices and a team of prosecutors should be delegated to the ONPCSB, for a tighter co-operation between the two institutions. ZF