Prosecutors will ask for the arrest of the four police officers from Soroca, recently detained in a corruption case. The trial will take place at Court of Buiucani at 11:00 AM.

We recall that four officers of the Police Inspectorate of Soroca were arrested by NAC and anticorruption prosecutors on suspicion of extortion of $ 3,000 from a citizen.

According to preliminary information, the four policemen would have extorted the money from a man in order not to prosecute the last for an alleged murder. The denouncer informed about the fact of being threatened by the officials with a criminal case for killing a homeless man. Even if the last died cause of intoxication and was not killed .

If found guilty, the policemen face up to 10 years in prison. Criminal prosecution is exercised by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Office.

12 police officers involved in various acts of corruption were arrested by NAC since the beginning of the year 2014.