Three judges of the five detained on corruption charges on October 23 will be held at the remand prison of the National Anticorruption Center. A judge will stay in custody for 30 days, while another two judges for 20 days. Two judges were placed under house arrest for 30 days, IPN reports.

According to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, the prosecutor involved in this case was also placed under house arrest for 30 days. Prosecutors’ claims concerning the other four persons detained in this case – a doctor, a lawyer, a judicial assistant and an accused private individual – will be submitted to court on October 25.

The investigation was ordered by the Prosecutor General based on the identified elements of traffic of influence. Criminal cases over passive and active corruption were later added to this case.

The judges are suspected of asking for and receiving large sums of money for passing favorable judgments in a number of examined criminal cases. The lawyer and the prosecutor acted as intermediaries in the transfer of the money. The decisions were to be pronounced in favor of the doctor and the private individual.