An employee of the Cadastral Department of the Public Services Agency of Chisinau was arrested on passive corruption charges. She was denounced through the national anticorruption line of the National Anticorruption Center (NAC) after asking 18,000 lei bribe from an inhabitant of Chisinau, IPN reports.
The NAC said the employee of the Public Services Agency asked the money for swifter making changes in the cadastral documents of the real estate that belonged to the denouncer, even if this was within her duties.
The woman was caught in the act of taking the last tranche of 8,000 lei. She was placed under arrest for 72 hours and is held at the NAC’s remand prison. She faces up to ten years in jail with fine and ban on holding public posts for a definite period of time.
