Ten persons were detained in a case of corruption on October 23. Among these are five judges, a prosecutor, a lawyer and a doctor, IPN reports.
The National Anticorruption Center carried out searches at the Chisinau Appeals Court, the Centru branch of the Chisinau City Court, the Chisinau City Prosecutor’s Office and at suspects’ homes. As a result, there were detained three judges of the Appeals Court, two judges of the Chisinau City Court, a prosecutor of the Chisinau City Prosecutor’s Office, a lawyer, a judicial assistant, a doctor and a private individual involved in a case.
The judges are suspected of asking for and receiving large sums of money for passing favorable judgments in a number 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.
