The National Anti-corruption Centre has reported several raids in cases of influence peddling, active corruption, passive corruption and smuggling, operated last week. In the first case, it is about a man, suspected of demanding 200 thousand lei from a person in order to influence the decision on a criminal case in court. He was detained by the NAC for 72 hours. In another case, the director of a construction company is being investigated for offering illegal remuneration to Chisinau City Hall officials, to employees of INST and ÎS "Cadastru" in exchange for obtaining permissive documents or favourable decisions for the construction of buildings in the capital and in its suburbs. He is also being investigated in another criminal case for currency smuggling in particularly large proportions. At the moment, 8 people, arrested in the NAC files, are placed in penitentiaries, and one person is under house arrest, and during the reference period, the criminal investigation officers proposed 17 criminal cases for trial.

The Criminal Assets Recovery Agency (CARA) of the NAC seized 5 assets worth about 3.5 million lei, last week, based on the delegations of the National Investigation Inspectorate (NII) of the GPI and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (AP). Among the assets are a residential building, a building plot, a share capital and cash, seized in a case of money laundering and abuse of office.

In the field of corruption prevention, the Legislation Directorate completed and handed over to the authors 13 expert reports and 4 opinions on draft normative acts. On the anti-corruption education component, trainings were organized for 130 people. The NAC notifies the initiation of 2 operational and 3 strategic analyses, the release of 166 integrity records, the reception of 49 calls to the National Anti-corruption Hotline and the registration of 1504 materials in the Centre’s Chancellery.