Moldova's National Anticorruption Centre detains chief architect of Criuleni district council

Chisinau, 28 July /MOLDPRES/ - Officers of the National Anticorruption Centre (CNA) today detained the chief architect of the Criuleni district council and the manager of a designing company and are prosecuted on more corruption-related files.    

According to CNA, the two men are suspected of passive, active corruption, influence peddling and abuse of power. They would have caused damages worth hundreds of thousands of lei to the local budget. The files were opened in late 2020, and afterwards they were connected into a single procedure. The investigations by CNA and prosecutors consisted in producing evidence, including the interception of the suspects and documenting their audio and video actions.   

Within investigations, law-enforcers found that the employees of the CriPSer Bureau of Design, Prospecting and Services, a subdivision subordinated to the Criuleni district council, had set up a commercial company with the same duties and through this company, they were providing services to private people and legal entities, to the detriment of the state enterprise. Thus, by preliminary agreement with the Council’s chief architect, people were directed to the private company and against sums of money, given as bribe, they were getting acts and notes for constructions without impediments.   

During investigations, more cases of corruption and abuse were documented, in which the manager of the joint venture CriPSer Bureau of Design, Prospecting and Services and the chief architect would have been involved. Today, CNA offices and prosecutors made eight searches at the homes and offices of the manager of the CriPSer bureau and chief architect of the Criuleni district. As a result of them, the two suspects were detained and escorted to CNA for hearings.   

If found guilty, the two suspects run the risk of being sentenced to prison, being fined or deprived of the right to hold public offices.  

photo: CNA