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A bailiff and a businessman have been detained in several cases in which they are investigated for illegal dispossession of the plots of land by municipal authorities
08.06.2022 186 ViewsThe Chisinau City Hall was allegedly illegally dispossessed of several plots of land by the members of a criminal group consisting of lawyers, bailiffs, businessmen and representatives of a public association. The NAC officers and anti-corruption prosecutors, together with the Security and Intelligence Service, detained two individuals who allegedly participated in the embezzlement of the municipality's property, by organizing fake tenders.
In fact, the scheme to alienate lots in the capital began in 2013, when a public association from Chisinau allegedly tried to fraudulently take possession of land. In complicity with several people, the representatives of this company would have identified several addresses in Chisinau, would have formed with the help of cadastral engineers the real estate, and later would have faked the organization of public tenders. In 2014, several fake tenders were organized by the bailiff, and the members of the group became effective beneficiaries of 9 lots, and later in 2015 another fake tender was organized, by which the municipality was dispossessed of another 20 lots.
During the criminal investigation, the evidence was administered confirming that the organized tenders had a fictitious character, and the damage caused to the local public authorities, as a result of the alienation of 9 plots of land, exceeds 12,000,000 lei. The whole process of dispossession and legalization of the goods was allegedly carried out by natural and legal persons who, acting as accomplices and serving the interests of the organized criminal group, aimed at illegally acquiring public property from the Chisinau City Hall, with subsequent sale of the land. Currently, the bailiff and the businessman, as well as other accomplices of theirs, are being investigated in several cases for the abuse of office, fraud, forgery, money laundering. Following searches today, two individuals were detained for 72 hours.
We remind, that in 2017, the NAC and the anti-corruption prosecutors detained three members who were part of this organized group. At that time, they were accused of embezzling, on the basis of court decisions, obtained through fraud, 20 plots of land belonging to the Chisinau City Hall.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office is conducting the criminal investigation.
Note: every person is presumed to be innocent until the final and irrevocable decision of the court is pronounced.