3 individuals and 5 companies from Iasi have been indicted by the European Public Prosecutor's Office for a €1.000.000 fraud

Three individuals and five companies from Iasi have been indicted by the European Public Prosecutor's Office for a €1 million IT project fraud. The money obtained through the Romanian Ministry of European Projects was subject to money laundering through domestic and international financial maneuvers, with shell companies in Bulgaria and Spain and bank accounts in Belgium and Lithuania, according to investigators.

The suspicious actions carried out by the Romanian firms were transferred to Moldovan and Italian citizens in order to prevent possible investigations, the European Public Prosecutor's Office notes. Two of the suspects have been remanded in custody, and three apartments, two plots of land, and the bank accounts of the suspects and their companies have been seized in order to recover the damages, RRA editor Diana Surdu reports.

Translated by: Radu Matei