Most of cases examined by Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office last year involve police officers

Twelve of the 82 criminal cases sent by the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office to court last year involved employees of the Ministry of the Interior. A large number of cases also concerned representatives of the local public administration. The activity report of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office for 2011 was presented in a news conference on Thursday, Info-Prim Neo reports. Throughout 2011, the anticorruption prosecutors examined over 350 applications. Most of the legal cases that were sent to court referred to cases of corruption and cases related to corruption. The offenses against the patrimony and other categories of offenses come next. Prosecutor Viorel Radetski said that the legal cases sent to court during the last several years involved mainly employees of the Ministry of the Interior. As to the work of the prosecutors who investigate the cases managed by the Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime, the prosecutors of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office sent to court 372 cases. They centered on offenses committed mainly by employees of the Ministry of the Interior, accountants, administrators of commercial organizations, employees of medical-sanitary and education institutions, civil servants, lawyers and other persons. Helped by the prosecutors of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, the courts of law last year passed 314 sentences, including 213 sentences condemning 229 persons.