Three Chisinau city hall's employees detained in file of illegal getting of acts for constructions

Chisinau, 19 October /MOLDPRES/ - Six persons, among whom three employees of the Chisinau city hall’s architecture, urbanism and land relations general department, today were detained for 72 hours in a file on illegal getting of acts for diverse constructions.    

According to the National Anticorruption Centre (CNA), it is about the deputy head of the architecture, urbanism and land relations general department, his two underlings, one technical expert and two intermediaries. In all, 25 persons, of whom 22 intermediaries and beneficiaries of civil servants’ services, were escorted to CNA for hearings, after their homes and job offices had been searched.    

According to the inquiry, public persons from the city hall would have facilitated the processing of acts for different types of constructions in Chisinau. Through some persons, who were interacting with applicants for documents, civil servants were speeding up the processing and release of permissive documents for the construction, reconstruction and re-planning of real estate, working out of project outline, release of urbanism certificates, as well as signing of official reports on final reception of works.

Materials of the case show that applicants of acts would have paid large sums of money for these services to intermediaries, who for their part, were giving a part of the money to civil servants of the architecture, urbanism and land relations general department. On the period of the investigations, tens such cases were documented, and among beneficiaries, there are persons who asked civil servants to provide them such services as: legalization of annexes to real estate, extension of trade centres, construction of attics, summer cottages or terraces, construction of churches adjacent to medical institutions or of moral and spiritual centres nearby education institutions, getting grounds for arranging parkings, etc.     

More criminal files have been opened on this case, with people being suspected of passive corruption and influence peddling.

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor A. Raileanu)