A company that used to be part of the so-called ShorHolding - a group of companies affiliated to the family of the former Orhei city mayor Ilan Shor. Molint Grup SRL was involved both in the Russian Laundromat (22 billion dollars laundered via Moldovan banks) and in the Moldovan financial fraud (theft of 1 billion dollars from three banks).
Founded in 2005 by businessman Ilan Shor, for some years Molint Grup SRL numbered among its associates a company of Gabriel Stati, son of Moldovan millionaire Anatol Stati, and Ion Cojocaru, Mr. Shor’s driver. In turn, Molint Grup SRL was an associate in other companies within ShorHolding, including Dufremol SRL. The latter until 2019 ran a duty-free store chain in Moldova and was a key business of the mayor. It was also an associate in Ghermivali SRL, which Mr. Shor intended to use as a developer of the Shor Holding Residence complex in a forest area near Ivancea village (Orhei District).
An investigation by RISE Moldova showed that on 30 September 2013 Molint Grup SRL received more than 6 million dollars from Westburn Enterprises, a British limited company, which in turn had received almost 17 million dollars from Seabon, another British limited company. Both British companies were involved in the 2010-2014 Russian Laundromat, a scheme that used Moldovan banks and courts of law to clear the laundering of 22 billion dollars.
Molint Grup SRL also appears in the ruling which a court of law handed down to the former prime minister Vladimir Filat; it was named a beneficiary of about 7.2 million dollars and 2.5 million lei in loans from the three banks used to carry out the fraud operation.
In 2015 a Ukrainian national identified as Halyna Klymenko became the sole owner of Molint Grup SRL; she had the same status in other ShorHolding companies too. That year Molint Grup SRL became inactive and never again submitted any financial reports. The Auditors Court said that in late 2019 the company owed about 458 million lei in taxes and duties.
