Thirteen people detained following CNA searches

Chisinau, Dec. 20 / MOLDPRES /- Thirteen people have been detained today by CNA officers for organizing a corruption scheme when issuing cadastral documents.

According to CNA, during the months of September-October this year, CNA and anti-corruption prosecutors documented several employees of the cadastral offices of the Public Services Agency, real estate and mortgage brokers, individuals and legal entities, who, in complicity with a former real estate agent, facilitated the procedure. obtaining cadastral documents.

In fact, CNA and anti-corruption prosecutors investigated several hundred episodes in which the scheme organizer facilitated the issuance of permissive documents for buying and selling real estate, evading the legal pre-scheduling procedure and claiming from its clients illicit sums of money to corrupt ASP employees. Among the applicants for documents were individuals, legal entities and cadastral agents who requested the issuance of documents without ensuring the necessary physical presence of the owners and without an official power of attorney for their collection. In order to obtain the documents, they turned to the scheme organizer and offered him money for the services offered by ASP.

Today, CNA officers and prosecutors conducted 69 searches targeting the offices, homes and cars of 38 people. At the same time, CNA officers picked up several documents from the ASP headquarters.

If found guilty, those detained today face up to 10 years in prison and criminal fines.