The chief prosecutor of the Hâncești Prosecutor’s Office Maxim Gropa is invetsigated for unjust enrichment and filing of a false tax return. Searches were carried out in a two-story house in which the prosecutor lives, but which is registered in the name of his father, and at two apartments owned by the prosecutor, in his office and three cars, one of which is registered in his name, the second in the name of his wife, while the third in the name of his father, but which was used by Maxim Gropa, IPN reports.

Contacted by IPN for details, spokeswoman for the Prospector General’s Office Mariana Cherpec said that anticorruption prosecutors charged the chief prosecutor of the Hâncești Prosecutor’s Office and asked for a warrant for his arrest. The prosecutors’ request is being examined.

The chief prosecutor of the Hâncești Prosecutor’s Office Maxim Gropa was remanded in custody for 72 hours on suspicion on unjust enrichment and filing of a false tax return. He was partially questioned over these charges.