NAC Synthesis: fines of over 6 million lei, applied in electoral corruption cases, searches and arrests in corruption cases and seizures of criminal assets worth over 3 million lei

The National Anti-corruption Centre has reported for the past week several actions in the direction of fighting corruption in cases of influence peddling, passive corruption and electoral corruption. The NAC continues to inform the public regarding the application of fines on the minutes, received from the Police, regarding the finding of the contravention provided by art. 47 first Contravention Code - "passive electoral corruption". Thus, the Centre applied fines amounting to more than 6,150,000 million lei for "passive electoral corruption" until November 15, 2024. At the same time, a resident of the village of Dubăsarii Vechi, Criuleni district, was searched for electoral corruption, manifested by offering goods for the purpose of determining the voter to exercise his electoral rights in favour of a candidate, registered in the presidential election race. Also last week, a corruption scheme was uncovered in the issuance of driving licenses for agricultural machinery. An employee of the State Inspectorate for Technical Supervision Cantemir and an intermediary are being investigated for influence peddling and passive corruption, being suspected of issuing driving licenses for various categories of tractors and self-propelled cars for bribes. In another case, searches were carried out at a head of department at Timofei Moșneaga Republican Clinical Hospital for systematically receiving illicit remuneration from patients between 1000 and 5000 lei for various services in his area of responsibility, such as issuing certificates, admitting people or extending the term of inpatient treatment. A citizen of Turkey was caught red-handed when he received a sum of 7,000 euros from a businessman in the capital, which were extorted for stopping alleged investigations carried out by the police. He will spend 30 days in preventive detention in Penitentiary No. 13. During the reference period, criminal investigation officers proposed 12 criminal cases for prosecution.

The Criminal Assets Recovery Agency (CARA) of the NAC seized assets worth over 3 million lei, last week, based on the delegations of the General Territorial Directorate South of the NAC, the General Prosecutor's Office and the General Inspectorate of the Border Police of the MIA. Among them are 3 residential rooms, 2 means of transport and 5 agricultural lands, seized in a case of arbitrariness, organization of illegal migration and fraud. At the same time, the Agency took over management of 5 million lei. Last week, 6.5 million lei were deposited on NAC's treasury accounts.

In the field of corruption prevention, the Legislation Department completed and handed over to the authors 19 expert reports and 2 opinions on draft normative acts, last week. During the mentioned period, 13 anti-corruption trainings were organized for 540 people. The NAC notifies the initiation of 5 operational analyses, the release of 69 integrity records, the reception of 45 calls to the National Anti-Corruption Hotline and the registration of 2334 materials in the Centre’s Chancellery.