The Director of the National Anti-corruption Centre (NAC), Alexandr Pînzari, presented the institution’s activity report for 2025 to the plenary session of the Parliament.
Parliament heard the activity report of the National Anti-corruption Centre for 2025
According to the NAC Director, in 2025 the institution focused its efforts on intensifying the fight against corruption, with increased attention to electoral corruption, the recovery of assets derived from crimes and the strengthening of corruption prevention mechanisms. Thus, THE NAC officers discovered about 850 crimes, 13% more than the previous year, of which 792 are corruption cases. Of these, 26 fall into the category of particularly serious crimes, and 370 - serious.
Among the high-profile cases documented by the NAC in 2025 are 20 cases of electoral corruption and six cases of illegal financing of political parties. Also, schemes for fraudulent issuance of driving licenses were uncovered in several localities of the country, the systematic demand of illicit remuneration from transporters in the north of the country and the detection of several cases in which some judges, lawyers and police officers were involved in acts of corruption.
The most frequent offenses were active corruption (265 cases), passive corruption (206 cases) and influence peddling (186 cases). The localities where the most crimes were committed are the municipalities of Chisinau and Balti, as well as the districts of Calarasi, Hancesti and Floresti.
During the reporting period, the NAC officers handled 1,597 criminal cases, up 7% from the previous year, of which 611 were completed. During the criminal investigation, 129 people were detained for corruption crimes, and 77 were placed in pre-trial detention. The damage established in the criminal cases initiated by the NAC during the reporting period exceeds 43 million lei. Also, two people were sentenced to prison terms for committing the crimes of fraud and money laundering in the “Banca de Economii” case.
In 2025, the Criminal Assets Recovery Agency (CARA) within the NAC seized assets worth a total of almost 710 million lei, most of which were in criminal cases of money laundering. At the same time, 1,115 criminal assets were assessed, of which 818 were immovable and 297 were movable, including 12 assets located abroad, worth about 915 million lei.
The Director of the NAC specified that one of the institution's priorities remains the contribution to the accession process to the European Union. Thus, in 2025, the institution actively participated in the working groups on the negotiation chapters, developed anti-corruption presentations for bilateral screening, participated in screening meetings with representatives of the European Commission, as well as implemented specific actions provided for in the National Accession Plan, the roadmaps and the Reform Agenda related to the Growth Plan of the Republic of Moldova for the years 2025–2027.
Source: Communication and Public Relations Department of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova