A sum of 500,000 euros was confiscated within the investigation of the case to bribe a lawmaker. The money was found in a safe deposit box at a Chisinau bank, which was rented by the woman who was arrested on March 7, IPN reports.

According to a communiqué from the National Anticorruption Center, the money was packed in seven plastic sacks. There were the names of two banks on the banderoles. The money was seized and its origin is to be established.

The prosecutors ordered examining the US$250,000 found during the March 7 arrest. A part of this money had banderoles with the marks of a Ukrainian bank on it.

On March 7, two persons were arrested on suspicion of attempting to corrupt a member of Moldova’s Parliament. Afterward, the court issued warrants for their arrest for a 30-day period.