Two people sentenced in MP corruption file in Moldova

Chisinau, July 13 /MOLDPRES/ – Two people on 12 July were sentenced to 11.4 years of imprisonment in semi-closed type penitentiary, a fine of 160 thousand lei, and respectively, to three years of imprisonment, of which two with suspension, in a file on corrupting a lawmaker. 

According to the court’s conclusion, the two defendants are accused of corrupting a deputy of the Moldovan Parliament, to convince him to leave the faction he was a member of. On this purpose, the accused persons were to give the PM a bribe worth 250 thousand dollars. Officers of the National Anti-Corruption Centre detained the defendants red-handed while handing over the money in March 2014. 

The lawyers of the two culprits described the judges’ ruling as “illegal and unjustified” and said they would contest it at the Court of Appeal. 

One of the defendants has been wanted ever since April 2016, with the decision pronounced in his absence. 

The money, detected and raised during the prosecution of the accused, was confiscated for the state budget. The reasoned sentence is to be pronounced on August 1, 2016. 

(Reporter P. Beregoi, editor L. Alcaza)