Today, January 31st, the Plenum of the Competition Council initiated an investigation  on signs of  coordinated establishment of exchange rate by some currency exchange offices, which could constitute a violation of the art. 5 of the Competition Law. This could poit out the existence of a cartel.

   In this regard, there were effectuated unannounced inspections at the  various exchange offices from Chisinau.

If the cartel is demonstrated, Enterprises risk a penalty of 5% from the annual turnover.

The Competition Council

31/01/2015