A 55-year-old woman representing a company has been detained for 72 hours after officers of the Organised Crime Investigation Directorate of the National Investigation Inspectorate (INI), General Prosecution Directorate, together with prosecutors from the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS), uncovered the activity of a criminal group under criminal investigation for four cases of swindling on a particularly large scale. According to the Inspectorate General of Police (IGP), the damage exceeds 5 million lei.

During 2022, the 55-year-old woman, together with other persons, under “the pretext of procuring prunes, by abuse of trust and misleading representatives of companies on the territory of the country, mostly from Nisporeni district, appropriated tons of prunes without paying the total amount, causing considerable damage to the victims”.

“Yesterday (editor’s note: Wednesday, February 8), investigation and prosecution officers, with the support of masked officers from the BPDS “Lightning” conducted seven searches at the homes and cars of the suspects allegedly involved in this case, from which accounting documents, draft entries, electronic information carriers were seized. The woman was also detained for 72 hours and one of the suspects is being investigated at large,” IGP representatives said.

According to the police, the person guilty of such a crime is punishable by imprisonment from 8 to 15 years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to exercise a certain activity for up to 5 years.

“In this context, we ask all those who have suffered damage as a result of the illegal analogous activities of the suspects to contact the Police at the telephone number 069670069. At the moment, criminal prosecution actions are taking place in order to establish all the circumstances,” the representatives of the institution added.

At the same time, according to the IGP, the suspect was definitively sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in prison by the Romanian judicial body, and the Chisinau Court, Ciocana seat, is currently holding court hearings on the recognition and execution of the sentence in question.