Law-enforcers detain 16 persons in file on delivery of perished goods to education institutions from Moldovan capital

15:17 | 24.11.2016 Category: Social

Chisinau, 24 November /MOLDPRES/ - The National Anticorruption Centre (CNA) today detained 16 persons in a file on faking public tenders on supply of schools and kindergartens from Chisinau with food products, as well as delivery of perished goods to pre-school institutions.

The head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, Viorel Morari, has told a news conference that 23 persons had status of suspects in this file in all, of whom nine civil servants of the education, youth and sport department at the Chisinau city hall, seven economic agents, the head of the Defence Ministry’s food directorate, etc.

“The criminal prosecution itself has entered an actively visible phase for the rest of the persons involved in these schemes contrary to the law. The investigation started in last March on abuse of power, influence peddling, active corruption, abuse of office and passive corruption. We made more searches, interceptions and even investigation under the claim within the criminal prosecution,” Morari noted.

For his part, the head of the CNA criminal prosecution department, Bogdan Zumbreanu, said that law enforcers had carried out 46 searches at homes and the offices of suspects, as well as at warehouses of economic agents, where the products were kept.

“One person related to this file tried to destroy some evidence during searches. Also, perished food products, on the quality of which specialists of the National Food Safety Agency are to give their opinion, were discovered at a warehouse. The sum of the bribe given to civil servants was amounting to tens of thousands of lei, and the value of contracts was varying between 200,000 and several millions of lei,” Zumbreanu said.

The 16 defendants were detained for 72 hours and run the risk of being sentenced to ten years of imprisonment, to get a fine worth 8,000 contravention units (400,000 lei) and depriving of the right to hold certain offices for up to ten years.

(Reporter P. Beregoi, editor M. Jantovan)

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