The head of the Rascani Bar Association of Chisinau was arrested for traffic of influence. The Persecutor General’s Office said the arrest was made in the evening of June 22, after the lawyer’s acts of corruption had been documented for several months, IPN reports.
According to prosecutors, the suspect asked for 135,000 lei from a person accused of human trafficking for influencing employees of the Ministry of the Interior’s Center for Combatting Trafficking in Persons to make a decision favorable to the defendant and to convince judges of the Chisinau Appeals Court to allow him to stay further under house arrest.
The lawyer was arrested inside the Rascani Bar Association immediately after he took the last tranche of the money he asked from the accused. He faces a fine of 80,000 to 120,000 lei or three to seven years in jail for influence peddling.
