An employee of the Balti Municipal Hospital was arrested by the police on suspicion of traffic of influence. Vitalie Briceag, division head at the Interior Ministry’s Frauds Division, told a news conference on Saturday that the man sold psychotropic substances obtained on false prescriptions issued by doctors of the hospital, Info-Prim Neo reports. The substances that the man bought from the hospital’s drugstore were sold at a twice or thrice higher price to persons using drugs. For every prescription, the man paid by 100 lei to the doctors. According to the police, the prescriptions were issued for inexistent persons or persons who did not know about it. The man, who worked as a porter, was caught in the act of purchasing drugs. He is liable to a fine of 10 000 to 30 000 lei or up to five years in jail for traffic of influence. The police are to establish the blame of the doctors who issued the prescriptions and of the druggists. They may be punished over illegal distribution of drugs and illegal prescription or violation of the rules of using narcotic or psychotropic substances.