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Minister of the Interior: An increasing number of citizens denounce actions of electoral bribery

Citizens continue to address the law enforcement officers to declare that they were involuntarily drawn into voter bribery schemes and denounce the people who contacted them and those who offered them money, said the Minister of Internal Affairs, Adrian Efros. He mentioned that the police are now investigating several voter bribery schemes and the ways in which they are lured into committing this crime.

"All the citizens of the Republic of Moldova who will cooperate with the police bodies in this regard to denounce acts of corruption will not be sanctioned, will not be held accountable. If we prove that these people repeatedly accepted different sums of money in exchange for the vote, then obviously we will draw strict conclusions and apply the legislation", said Adrian Efros.

We remind that the National Anticorruption Center has applied fines worth over 2 million lei for electoral bribery so far. Another thousand minutes received from the Police are in the process of examination. According to the legislation in force, for committing this contravention, the legislation in force provides for a fine from 25,000 lei to 37,500 lei.

Also, under the new legal provisions, people who offer money to influence the results of elections, risk from one to five years in prison and a fine of over 50 thousand lei, and the illegal financing of political parties from prohibited sources is punishable with up to six years in prison and a fine of over 67 thousand lei.

To ensure the recovery of the damage, legal institutions can apply seizure on the person's assets. Also, people who denounce the scheme and cooperate with the criminal investigation body, including handing over the things transferred to them in an illegal way, can be released from criminal liability.

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