A senior inspector of the Chisinau State Tax Inspectorate was sentenced to five years in jail for acts of corruption. The first court put him on probation, but the prosecutors challenged the sentence in a higher court, IPN reports, quoiting the Prosecutor General’s Office.

According to prosecutors, in March – April last year the tax inspector asked for 10,000 lei from the administrator of a company for annulling the orders by which fiscal posts were instituted at the company managed by this person and at another two firms with whom the administrator had economic relations. Afterward, the inspector asked for another US$500 from the same person for not placing obstacles to him to selling the merchandise – food and technical salt that was to be imported. Thus, for each of the ten railcars of imported salt, the company’s administrator was to pay by US$50 to the inspector.

In both of the cases, the money was transmitted under the control of anticorruption prosecutors and officers of the National Anticorruption Center within a special investigation operation.

Recently, the Chisinau Appeals Court passed a new judgment by which the tax inspector was found guilty of passive corruption and sentenced to five years in prison. He was also banned from holding public posts for a seven-year period and fined 100,000 lei.

The decision can be appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice.