NAC Synthesis: new corruption cases, arrests, millions of assets seized and taken over by CARA
The National Anti-corruption Centre (NAC) presents the weekly report on the activities carried out in the fields of combating and preventing corruption, as well as measures to recover assets derived from crimes. During the reference period, new searches were carried out in the file of the corruption scheme in the field of cosmetic surgery. Another employee of a salon in the capital was found with a fake diploma. At the same time, anti-corruption officers caught an employee of the Nisporeni Police Inspectorate red-handed while receiving money that was not due to him. Also last week, NAC officers and prosecutors raided the office, residence and car of a lawyer, as well as the Dondușeni Probation Office, in a case of influence peddling and passive corruption. In another case investigated by NAC, a foreign citizen was detained while handing over money to a customs inspector at the Chișinău International Airport in a case of active corruption and influence peddling. Also, the previous week, the president of the Briceni territorial office of a political party, investigated by NAC and APO, was sent to trial for complicity in accepting illegal financing of the party.
The NAC’s Criminal Assets Recovery Agency (CARA) seized assets of illicit origin worth approximately 6 million lei. The seized assets include a residential building, a residential and a non-residential room, a bank account and a land plot for construction. The assets were frozen in cases of organizing illegal migration, money laundering, passive corruption, active corruption and influence peddling. The Agency also issued 8 freezing orders on 18 real estate assets and 6 cars. Several previously applied seizures, worth over 6 million lei, were confirmed by court decisions, 1.5 million lei were deposited in treasury accounts and 3.7 million lei were taken over for administration.
In the field of corruption prevention, the Legislation Directorate submitted 11 legislative expertise reports and 2 opinions to the authors. At the same time, 115 integrity records were issued, and 41 calls were received at the National Anti-corruption Line. During the reporting period, the criminal investigation officers of the NAC proposed 14 criminal cases for resolution, and currently 4 people are in the institution's isolation ward, another 6 are being held in penitentiaries under preventive arrest. 1453 materials were registered in the institution's Chancellery.