Synthesis of NAC activities: Arrests, convictions and seizures of illicit assets worth approximately 2 million lei

The National Anti-corruption Centre (NAC) has announced the summary of the activities carried out during the previous week on the component of combating and preventing corruption, as well as on criminal assets recovery. Thus, during the reporting period, the NAC detained an accomplice of the head of the Central Customs Office, in a file regarding acts of corruption, and a lawyer, suspected of having demanded the amount of 10,000 euros to influence a favourable solution in a criminal file.

Also, convictions were pronounced in files managed by the NAC and anticorruption prosecutors, on acts targeting the illegal financing of political parties and money laundering in the "Banca de Economii" file. During the reference period, the Criminal Assets Recovery Agency (CARA) of the NAC seized assets of illicit origin worth a total of approximately 2 million lei, as part of ongoing investigations.

In the field of corruption prevention, the following activities were carried out: organizing anti-corruption training for employees of the Customs Service, medical personnel and other civil servants; the NAC's legislative department submitted 21 anti-corruption expert reports and 6 opinions to the authors of draft normative acts; the analytical department completed 5 operational analyses relevant to the process of identifying and preventing corruption risks.

General statistical data: during the mentioned period, 1,457 materials were registered in the NAC's office and 37 calls were received at the National Anti-corruption Hotline – 0 800 55555.