How the Border Network with the Republic of Moldova Worked. Officers Worked Undercover For A Year To Catch Customs Officers Taking Bribes From Motorists
4 border policemen and 4 customs officers, detained in the corruption case from the border points, and 15 other employees, under judicial control.
Four of the defendants are from Bihor, operatives at the Borș Border Crossing Point (PTF), and are accused of taking bribes from the drivers of the minibuses to overlook their irregularities.
The investigations into the corruption file instrumented by the DNA Iași started in the fall of 2020, and in the first phase, the suspicion only concerned customs officials and Romanian border police officers on the border between Moldova and Romania.
At the beginning of 2021, however, the investigations were extended to the Republic of Moldova, through a collaboration agreement between the anti-corruption prosecutors of the two countries, a joint investigation team being established.
DGA officers worked undercover and customs officials were filmed taking bribes
Officers of the General Anticorruption Directorate and collaborators of the investigators worked undercover for more than a year, as employees of passenger and parcel transport companies, with routes on the Moldova – Romania – Germany route. With audio-video equipment mounted on their clothes, they passed through PTF Sculeni (Iași), Albita (Vaslui), Oancea (Galați), Stânca (Botoşani) and, finally, in Borș (Bihor).
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They filmed the negotiations with the border guards and customs officials, both at the entry of Moldovan citizens into Romania and at their exit to Hungary, through PTF Borș.
The carriers paid stipends between 20 and 250 euros so that the Romanian border policemen and customs officials did not turn away the Moldovan passengers who did not comply with the regulations regarding the period of stay in the European Union by non-EU citizens.
The money was inserted into the documents and disappeared when the documents were returned. At the same time, the wages were not fixed: “In Borș, the most was demanded, even 250 euros. In Albiţa, it was between 20 and 50 euros”, explained sources from the investigation for the quoted source.
Even the Moldovan border workers did not let themselves down, the amounts claimed and received varying between 100 and 900 euros.
Customs searches in the country
Last week, anti-corruption officers descended on five border crossing pointsamong which Vama Albita and Vama Sculeni.
The DNA then transmitted that investigations are being carried out in a criminal case concerning suspicions regarding the commission of corruption offenses in connection with the crossing of some border points, committed between July 2021 and September 2022″.
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According to the prosecutors, in exchange for the money received as a bribe, the defendants would have violated their duties, in the sense that they would have favored the passage of the respective persons or parcels without ordering the legal measures for non-compliance with the provisions related to the transport of certain quantities of goods.
The anti-corruption prosecutors announced on January 18 that legal measures were ordered for 23 people, as follows: 8 people were detained, including four customs workers at the Sculeni Border Customs Office and four police officers at the Border Police Sector. Borsch.
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