Prosecutors demand harsher punishment for customs officer

The prosecutors seek harsher punishment for a customs officer who was given a three-year suspended sentenced and fined 20,000 lei for passive corruption, Info-Prim Neo reports. In a communique, the Prosecutor General's Office says the court did not deprive the culprit of the right to hold particular posts and the prosecutors do not agree with this. The man, who worked as customs inspector in Briceni, in February this year took 1,000 lei from a woman at the Larga-Kelmenets customs post to allow her to bring 300 DVDs with movies into Moldova from Ukraine without paying import duties. Earlier, the customs inspector received about 3,000 lei from the same woman for allowing her to illegally take 1,700 DVDs with movies into the country.