Officers of the National Anticorruption Center and prosecutors on April 10 carried out searches at a number of banks and confiscated money from safe deposit boxes that belonged to suspects in the case concerning the arranging of public tender contests for purchasing medical equipment and consumables, IPN reports. According to the Center, there were confiscated sums of almost €200,000, over US$51,000 and 60,000 lei.

The Buiucani Court Friday placed the director of the Cardiology Institute Vitalie Moscalu and the director of a unit of the Ministry of Health Victor Volovei under house arrest for a period of 25 days. Former health minister Andrei Usatyi and the director of the National Emergency Medicine Center Gheorghe Ciobanu will be held in the Center’s remand unit for 25 days, while the director of the Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices Alexandru Coman for 20 days. The director of the Oncology Institute Victor Cernat got 30 days of house arrest.

On April 9, anticorruption officers and prosecutors searched the homes, offices and cars of the suspects and seized 2.2 million lei, over €50,000, almost US$10,000 and other amounts in Canadian dollars, British pounds, Russian rubles, Ukrainian hrivnas and Romanian lei. There were also confiscated bank cards, drafts, copies of purchase contracts, laptops, tablet PCs, computers and other devices carrying information.