The head of the General Regional Development Division of the Ministry of Construction and Regional Development was arrested on charges of unjust enrichment and will be held in remand for 72 hours initially. The functionary is suspected of possessing property to the value of about 6 million le, which is much more than the incomes earned by his family in 2011-2015. A part of his property is registered in the name of other persons, IPN reports.

According to the National Anticorruption Center, this owns two plots in Calarasi town and Chisinau municipality, two luxury cars worth over 1 million lei, bank accounts with over 300,000 lei in them, etc. The legal incomes of the functionary and his wife slightly exceeded 1 million lei in 2011-2015, but the value of investments and purchases made in the period were much higher.

The functionary faces a fine of 6,000 to 8,000 conventional units or three to seven years in jail, in both of the cases with ban on holding particular posts and performing particular activities for 10 to 15 years, over unjust enrichment.

In another case examined by anticorruption officers and prosecutors, the public servant is suspected of abuse of power by influencing inferiors who formed part of a working group for holding public tender contests to take decisions in favor of particular business entities.