The NAC Synthesis: Arrest for a 30,000 euro bribe and seizures of 13.4 million lei

The National Anti-corruption Centre (NAC) presents the main actions carried out in the previous week in the field of combating and preventing corruption, as well as in the criminal assets recovery.

During the reporting period, the NAC officers detained a man in a case of influence peddling. He allegedly demanded 30,000 euros from a person to influence employees of a penitentiary to complete the necessary documents and adopt the appropriate decisions for submitting to the court an application regarding the release of a convict from serving his sentence, in connection with the detection of a serious illness. A tranche of the demanded amount was sent to the suspect under the control of anti-corruption officers. The court ordered his placement in preventive detention for 30 days.

During the reference period, criminal investigation officers reported the initiation of 14 new criminal cases and proposed 11 files for transmission to the court. Currently, 2 persons are in the NAC detention centre, and another 14 persons, accused in the files managed by the NAC, are placed in preventive detention in penitentiaries.

The Criminal Assets Recovery Agency (CARA) seized 3 non-residential premises worth over 13.4 million lei in a file regarding the poor-quality execution of constructions. Other previously applied seizures, worth over 3.7 million lei, were confirmed by the courts. At the same time, the Agency conducted training sessions for users of the Automated Information System "Register of Seized Criminal Assets" (SIA RBII) for employees of the courts, bailiffs and employees of the State Fiscal Service.

In the field of corruption prevention, the NAC submitted 20 expert reports and 2 opinions on draft normative acts to the authors. The National Anti-corruption Line received 68 calls, and 1,617 materials were registered in the institution's Chancellery.