As a result of the denunciation drawn up by a border policeman within B.P. Naidas, the officers of the Anticorruption General Directorate - Caras Severin County Anticorruption Service, with the support of the General Directorate of Information and Internal Protection, under the coordination of an assigned Prosecutor in the Prosecutor's Office within Caras Severin Court, caught red handed a young man who offered the amount of 400 euros to a border policeman in order not to take the legal measures against him.
On 12.04.2010, at 02.30 p.m., within an action carried out in the field of countering illegal trafficking of unstamped cigarettes, the border policemen within B.P. Sector Naidas, Caras Severin County, stopped in order to check the vehicle driven by S. L., aged 27, from Moravita locality, Timis County, about which there was information that he was dealing with illegal trafficking of unstamped cigarettes. After the check, the border policemen detected the quantity of 1,000 packets of cigarettes for which the driver did not hold certificate of origin.
In order not to confiscate his cigarettes and not to take the legal measures against him, S. L. offered 400 euros to one of the border policeman. The lawman refused to accept the bribe and informed S. L. that his act constitutes a crime, but the citizen insisted on offering the money.
Under these conditions, the border policeman informed the officers within the General Anticorruption Directorate - Caras Severin County Anticorruption Service who took measures in order to carry out the flagrant. The man was caught red handed while he was offering the amount of 400 euros to the border policeman.
A criminal file was issued to the person involved for committing bribery, act provided in article 255 of Penal Code related to article 6 of Law no 78/2000 on the prevention, detection and sanction of corruption deeds, the case Prosecutor disposed the detention of the person involved for 24 hours.
Today, 13.04.2010, S. L. is to be brought before Court in Caraş-Severin with proposal of preventive arrest for 29 days.