Moldovan prosecutors have sent to court five files on two criminal gangs indicted of money laundering, face entrepreneurship and fiscal evasion amounting to a total of 300 million lei lei ($1.5 mn.)

The 5 indicted registered companies on poor people from the Transnistrian area and used them to smuggle goods in 2015-2016. They are in custody now and some are said to have recognized their guilt.

The prosecutors have also sequestered some of their goods, houses, cars and money. 1.5 million lei have been poured into the state budget as fines.