The National Integrity Authority (NIA) has issued a document ascertaining the violation of the legal regime of declaration of property and personal interests by Socialist MP Radu Mudreac, who didn’t declare over 4.5 million lei. The integrity inspector submitted a denouncement to the Prosecutor General’s Office over unjust enrichment and money laundering and notified the State Tax Service so that this carries out an inspection, IPN reports.

In a press release, the NIA says the procedure in relation to the MP’s property was initiated at the start of 2020 following a notification from an NGO operating in the corruption prevention sector. The integrity inspector identified a difference of over 4.5 million lei between the owned property and the incomes earned by MP Radu Mudreac and his family in December 2014 – August 2016. The sum was found in the bank accounts opened in the name of the family’s firm that was managed by the wife and was founded by the MP. The firm was later sold.

Contacted by IPN, Radu Mudreac was unavailable for comment. According to the NIA’s ascertaining document, the MP said the family’s firm signed contracts with different private individuals from whom it borrowed over 4.7 million lei for erecting a commercial building in central Chisinau and this is not personal earnings.

The integrity inspector rejected the given arguments as unfounded as the given persons didn’t officially own such amounts for lending that money.

The NIA’s document can be challenged in an administrative court.