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21.07.2010 Two U.S. Secret Service officers thanked CCECC for exchanged information and disclosure of an international group suspected of money laundering

Two U.S. Secret Service officers have undertaken today, July 21st, an ad-hoc visit to the Centre for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption in order to thank the authorities for the exchange information on the disclosure of an international criminal group suspected of money laundering.
Darren T. White, Regional Attaché in economic security issues of the U.S. Secret Service and Petru Sinculei, investigative specialist had a meeting with the Director of CCECC, Viorel Chetraru, Anticorruption Prosecutor Boris Poiata, General Director Igor Polenta and prosecution service representatives of the Preventing and combating money laundering Service. The discussions proceeded courtesy and protocol and were focused on sharing intelligence information.
According to the American colleagues, currently in the U.S. is running an extensive investigation related to U.S. citizens who had been injured through the site "eBay" by the group retained by CCECC. They have announced that several complains arrived from a number of people who participated in Internet auctions and who have been cheated on. At the moment, the damage claimed by them amounts to over 2 million U.S. dollars. The SS officers thanked the Centre for prompt action, apprehension group and willing to give full support to identify all members of the transnational criminal networks.

Viorel Chetraru said he appreciated the constructive cooperation with the U.S. specialized services. Only this way, the file turned on money laundering has real chance to get in court: "In order to prove money laundering is necessary to prove that legalized money came from a criminal action” said Chetraru. And in this sense we need official U.S confirmation that this is a criminal fraud and the money recovered by banks in Moldova is a result of crimes. "Both sides have proposed an operative work on this case and similar ones which are now at the investigative stage.
It should be mentioned that last week CCECC retained a group composed of five persons, a criminal file on "money laundering" was opened. Two of them are already charged and arrested preventively three are investigated in state of freedom.

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