Anticorruption officers, prosecutors make searches at Chisinau-based school-leaving examination centre

Chisinau, 14 June /MOLDPRES/ - Prosecutors and officers of the National Anticorruption Centre (CNA) today made more searches at a school-leaving examinations centre, headquartered at the Chisinau-based Elena Alistar theoretical lyceum. Two observers, a teacher and a secretary, are suspected of influence peddling.   

According to the CNA press service, the operation took place following the documentation of information, saying that the observers of the examination commission would have promised some pupils that they had influence on the centre’s decision-takers and they were able to facilitate the passing of the exams by providing pupils with ear phones, through which the answers to tests would be dictated. The same observers would have proposed another way of taking examinations. They would have recommended that another competent person takes the exam instead of the pupil, ensuring the forging of the candidate’s identity card.   

The CNA officers found out that the observers would have demanded 2,700 euros from two pupils (1,500 euros from one pupils and 1,200 euros from another one), to ensure them a successful passage of the exams. The money was handed over under CAN’s control, and the aforementioned sums today were raised from the job offices and homes of the observers.

Presently, searches continue at the homes of the two observers, who are to be escorted to CNA to be heard as suspects.

A criminal file was opened on this case for influence peddling. If found guilty, the suspects run the risk of being sentenced to up to six years of imprisonment.

(Editor A. Raileanu)