NAC Synthesis: Two police officers and an intermediary, arrested for a bribe of 60,000 lei, a man investigated by NAC and AP, sentenced to 9 years in prison and seizures of assets worth 11 million lei

The National Anti-corruption Centre (NAC) has reported several activities last week on the component of combating and preventing corruption. Thus, two patrol inspectors and an intermediary were detained in a passive corruption case, and later the court decided to place the law enforcement officers under house arrest and to apply preventive arrest for 20 days to the intermediary. According to the investigation, the accused allegedly demanded and accepted a bribe of 60,000 lei in exchange for covering up a case of drink-driving. Also last week, the Chisinau Court, Buiucani headquarters, found a man, investigated by the NAC and the AP, guilty of 6 counts of corruption offenses, being sentenced to 9 years in prison and a fine of 500 thousand lei. We note that at the moment, 7 people, targeted in the Centre’s cases, are arrested and detained in penitentiary institutions in the municipalities of Chisinau and Balti. During the reporting period, the criminal investigation officers opened 11 new cases.

Also, the NAC's Criminal Assets Recovery Agency (CARA) announces the seizure of illicit assets worth approximately 5.6 million lei last week. These were seized based on the delegations of the General Directorate for Criminal Investigation of the NAC, the General Inspectorate of Border Police (IGPF) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the General Inspectorate of Police (IGP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Among the seized assets are a means of transport, a residential building, 2 residential premises and an agricultural land, which were seized in cases of embezzlement of foreign assets, money laundering, passive corruption, abuse of power, organization of illegal migration and fraud. At the same time, seizures applied to criminal assets worth approximately 5.4 million lei were confirmed by court decisions.

In the field of corruption prevention, the Legislation Directorate finalized and submitted to the authors 20 expert reports and 2 opinions on draft normative acts, last week. During the mentioned period, 6 anti-corruption trainings were organized for approximately 400 people within several information campaigns. The NAC notifies the completion of 5 operational analyses, the issuance of 153 integrity records, the reception of 53 calls to the National Anti-corruption Hotline and the registration of 1,714 materials in the Centre’s Chancellery.