The director of the National Blood Transfusion Center, the institution’s jurist and a vice director of the Public Procurement Agency were arrested by officers of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office. The three are suspected of misusing power by fixing tender contests in the field of blood transfusion, IPN reports, quoting the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Simultaneously, the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office instituted legal proceedings against a business entity for swindle attempt. With the participation of the administration of the National Blood Transfusion Center, the entity organized the installation of a plasmapheresis machine inside the Bălți Municipal Hospital, which was to be financed with foreign funds. In reality, without being imported, the given medical equipment was taken from the National Blood Transfusion Center.

IPN tried to discuss with the director of the National Blood Transfusion Center, but Svetlana Cebotari’s phones were switched off.