Four former MPs detained following raids by PA, SIS

13:26 | 02.02.2022 Category: Social

Chisinau, 2 Feb. / MOLDPRES /- Four former MPs have been detained following the SIS and PA raids this morning. The information was confirmed for MOLDPRES by spokesperson of the General Prosecutor's Office Mariana Cherpec.

This morning the officers of the Intelligence and Security Service, together with the prosecutors from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (PA) and the officers of the Agency for the Recovery of Criminal Assets searched several addresses. The searches take place during the investigation of the acts of illicit enrichment of 13 ex-MPs, targeting 47 real estate and 13 cars.

Cases of illicit enrichment are being investigated in connection with criminal investigations conducted by anti-corruption prosecutors into corrupting members of the Legislature for leaving the parliamentary faction of which they were a part.

According to the preliminary results of the investigations, the expenses of the ex-investigated deputies exceed their legal income in some cases by 350,000 lei, and in other cases this difference reaches about 4.6 million lei.

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