The Superior Council of Magistracy allowed taking legal action and holding accountable a woman judge from Drochia following a request made by Prosecutor General Eduard Harunjen, IPN reports.
The judge is suspected of swindle and filing of fraudulent tax returns. The criminal case was started following a complained filed by a group of people living in Drochia district. It was established that in 2014-2015, the judge obtained large sums of money from these persons by swindle and breach of trust. In all, the judge received €65,000 and 1.1 million lei, which she used for personal purposes.
According to the data of the National Integrity Authority, the judge didn’t indicate the sums borrowed from the victims as debts in the tax returns for 2014 and 2015, filing thus fraudulent returns.
The investigation into this case is conducted by the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office.
