Five members of a criminal group were arrested by law enforcement, being documented for managing non-resident companies.

According to PCCOCS prosecutors, in 2016, a group of citizens from Moldova and Israel have presented themselves as Forex representatives and would convince natural persons to invest money using two payment companies from Moldova, the money were then transferred to two companies from Great Britain and Panama, without using the Forex platform.

Investigations established that the suspects pretended to be representatives and pseudo-managers of a brokerage firm. At the same time, it was established that the company's employees, around 100 people, were working unofficially, without contracts, being paid off the books, causing the state budget significant damages, by tax evasion, numbers raising to 15 million lei.

Anticorruption prosecutors, along with INI officers, have performed 13 searches at the offices and houses of people implicated in the fraud. Therefore, were seized 30 computers, servers, drafts, around 500 000 unaccounted lei, being prepared as salaries for employees.