Economic Crimes Combating Department
The General Department for combating economic crimes was established within the Center in the year 2004 .
The basic tasks of the Department include: detection, eradication, combating and prevention of economic crimes under corruption aspect that represent a threat for the economic security of the state and public property and for the consumer interests.
In order to assure a successful performance of functional duties, the Department’s activity includes the following specific fields:
• combating of infringements related to tobacco products, bakery, consumption market, contraband and illicit traffic of goods;
• combating of infringements related to the circulation of ethylic alcohol and its derivative products;
• combating of infringements in medical and pharmaceutical institutions, in the institutions of education, in state budget institutions, in the sphere of precious metals and delinquent firms;
• combating of infringements in the field of transportation, informational technologies and advertising, construction and ecology;
• combating of infringements related to the power sector and energetic resources;
• combating of infringements on the stock market, in the insurance companies, in the industry, in the sector of ferrous metals and humanitarian aid.
The staff of the Department is made up of graduates of the country’s prestigious institutions of education that actively participate in various meetings, seminars, national and international practical and scientific conferences.
During the period of its activity the Department has revealed 690 infringements, has confiscated to the benefit of the state, based on administrative decisions and decrees, material goods with a total value of around 22 ,3 million lei.
The staff of this Department has demonstrated a remarkable professionalism in the revealing of a series of fraudulent schemes.
So, owing to the measures undertaken by the Department there were confiscated around 100 kg of gold and silver valued at around 20 million lei.
There were uncovered and liquidated schemes of illegal import of luxury automobiles into the country using fictive re-equipment and via the Transnistrian territory, the state budget being thus compensated with around 3 million lei.
There was revealed and documented a case of illegal export of a significant amount of foreign currency from the country by smuggling, when around 1,7 million USD were concealed in various caches.
A new genre of crimes detected by the staff of the Department has become the unauthorized access to telecommunication networks and services. In relation to the said offense there were arrested 3 criminal groups consisting of citizens of the Republic of Moldova and other states that used to transform illegally the international telephone calls into internal calls charged at a rate of 0,7 bani/minute.
Another well-organized criminal group was also identified and documented as being specialized in the alteration of state seals and use of false seals for electric power metering devices that has inflicted to the Enterprise with Foreign Capital „Union Fenosa” a total loss of around 25 million lei that has been fully recovered, while the loss compensated to the state budget accounted to 4 million lei.
The Department collaborates with the subdivisions of MIA, Information and Security Service, General Prosecutor’s Office and Frontier Troops, Customs Service, Court of Accounts, Licensing Chamber and similar services of the other states.
