OREANDA-NEWS. September 07, 2011. Prime Minister made this statement at the briefing on Monday, saying that the matter concerns the attempts of fraudulent seizure of 27.5% of shares of the Moldova-Agroindbank, 78.1% of shares of Universalbank, 16.4% of shares of Banca de Economii and 5% of shares of Victoriabank.

Prime Minister said the situation had normalized to a considerable degree and the state now has tools reducing the risk of appearance of such situations: particularly, the normative amendments, according to which shares from a bank’s authorized capital stock can be transferred only on the basis of a court’s final decree and only from the National Bank’s written consent. Vladimir Filat said he hadn’t told about these raider attacks on Moldova’s bank before to avoid panic and confusion among citizens.

Prime Minister said the attacks had been clearly planned and had taken place during vacations of the country’s leadership, as well as of the European structures’ and organizations’ representatives. Vladimir Filat emphasized that the first raider attack had become known on July 29 after a 27.5% shareholding had been withdrawn from a group of foreign investors of Moldova-Agroindbank in a fraudulent way. The shareholding was transferred to two companies registered in off-shore zones. The shares were received on the basis of a disputable decree of a Saint Petersburg’s court. Prime Minister emphasized shares of banks in other cases were also tried to be withdrawn according to the same fraudulent scheme.

Premier said the raider attacks’ goal was not to break functionality of the country’s banking system, but to re-distribute shares among stockholders. Vladimir Filat said he had been keeping informed of the developments in the country representatives of the countries, foreign investors of which, holding Moldovan banks’ shareholdings could suffer from the raider attacks, for example, Slovenia’s Prime Minister, as shareholders of these countries hold Moldova-Agroindbank’s shareholding.

Moldovan Prime Minister stressed the main task now is to return, through the court, to their legal shareholders, the shares withdrawn from them in a fraudulent way. The first meeting of the Supreme Court Chamber on this issue will be held on September 14.