New raids in the Agency for Intervention and Payments in Agriculture case: head of Balti section and an administrator detained by the anti-corruption officers
Prosecution actions in the case of fraudulent granting of agricultural subsidies continue. Officers of the Northern Territorial General Directorate of the National Anti-Corruption Centre (CNA), together with anti-corruption prosecutors from the Northern office, conducted searches this morning, February 7, at the home and office of the head of the Balti Territorial Section of the Agency for Intervention and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) and at the home of an administrator working in agriculture in the northern part of the country.
Following the raids, according to the CNA, the individuals were detained.
They also seized financial resources (31,000 lei), contracts, payment orders and tax invoices proving money transfers to legal persons who were accomplices in the crime and who provided instruments to disguise the origin of the money resulting from the crime, certificates confirming the submission of subsidy files and mobile phones.
To date, 27 cases have been prosecuted on the basis of reasonable suspicion of passive and active corruption, influence peddling and money laundering.
On 24 January 2023, CNA officers carried out criminal prosecutions in dozens of criminal cases, initiated on abuse of office, passive corruption, active corruption, influence peddling and money laundering. Several civil servants from the AIPA and representatives of economic agents have been detained for illegalities committed when granting agricultural subsidies.
On 2 February 2023, another 12 searches were carried out by officers of the CNA’s “North” Territorial General Directorate and anti-corruption prosecutors at the homes and offices of the administrators of six companies operating in the field of agriculture in the north of the country – in Balti municipality and Drochia, Râșcani, Falesti and Glodeni districts.
In the course of the prosecution, payment orders, tax invoices, certificates confirming the submission of subsidy files, mobile phones and other evidence relevant to the case were seized.
