A financial manager of the Moldovan insurance company ASITO has been condemned to 12 years in jail. He is to return 3 mn lei to the company, after being arrested last summer.

According to the probe, he forged documents ‘inventing’ a debt of 9.5 mn lei of the insurer to several companies and then transferred money 3 mn lei to those.

He also made a fake contract on purchasing equipment for a company in amount of $500,000.

Then, some money was transferred to his accounts in Russian banks.