Two police officers were convicted of passive corruption after their case had been retried for several years. The two were accused of asking for and receiving €7,500 from decision makers of a company in 2012. In exchange of this money, the inspectors were to ignore the illegalities identified at the company, IPN reports.

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, at the end of 2012, the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office completed the investigation and sent the case to the Centru Court, which decided that the deed didn’t contain elements of an offense and acquitted the police officers. The prosecutors appealed the decision and the Supreme Court of Justice ordered that the case be retried by the Chisinau Appeals Court, by a different panel of judges.

In two years, the Chisinau Appeals Court accepted the prosecutor’s appeal, quashed the decision of the Centru Court of 2012 and passed a new decision by which the two police officers were sentenced to seven and, respectively, eight years in jail and banned from holding public post for a period of three years. They were also fined by 24,000 lei.

The sentence can be yet appealed.