Over 340 passive electoral corruption reports were drawn up on Friday as a result of about 490 cases reported to the police. Over 260 reports were sent to the National Anticorruption Center for examination. According to the General Police Inspectorate (GPI), the persons who cooperate with the investigation bodies and provide information will be exempted from paying fines, in accordance with the law, IPN reports.
In an informative video, the police say that in order to change the European course of the Republic of Moldova, the Shor criminal organization put up for grabs over US$39 million during only two months. This is just the money identified by investigators for September and October, which was delivered through the transfer network of PSB, a Russian bank subject to international sanctions.
The identified criminal scheme consists of 130 local leaders, over 1,900 people who are in charge of polling stations in Moldova, over 50,000 recruitment activists and over 80,000 ordinary people, tricked into receiving between 800 and 1,500 lei and doing what they are told to in the electoral process, said the GPI.
The law enforcement officers encourage the citizens to be vigilant and report any electoral corruption attempt.
