Andrii Pantia and Valentina Olteanu, two traffic police officers caught while accepting bribes from drivers on Calea Dorobanti, were sentenced to three years of suspended imprisonment by a Bucharest court on Friday.

According to the court’s decision, they are banned for 4 years from holding positions in the Romanian police structures and must perform unpaid work for the benefit of the community for 100 days in the sector ADP 3, Amenajare Edilitară S5 SRL or within the Archdiocese of Bucharest, reports Agerpres.

In addition, the judges confiscated the sums received as bribes, namely 11,493 lei from Andrii Panty and 13,627 lei from Valentyn Oltianu.

The decision is not final and may be appealed.

Andrii Pantea, Police Commissioner of the Bucharest City Police Headquarters – Road Brigade, and Valentin Olteanu, Chief Police Officer of the DGPMB – Road Brigade, were caught by the DGA and DNA in April on Calea Dorobanca in Bucharest. , when receiving a bribe from the driver.

In the images that appeared in the public space, a police car, in which there was a crew of two, was stopped in motion by DNA prosecutors and DGA officers, searching at the sight of passers-by. He allegedly received the bribe from a man who was driving a car with Turkish license plates.

Anti-corruption prosecutors note that in the period from March 19 to April 22, Andrii Pantya and Valentyn Olteanu received various sums of money from 23 drivers in order not to fine them and deprive them of their driving licenses for violating some traffic rules.

“As a method of operation, most of the time the money hidden between the documents requested by the chief police agent Valentyn Oltianu (insurance or registration certificate) went to the commissioner Andrii Pantya. Later, he would take out the money, put it in his wallet or pocket, and at the end of the program, these sums of money would be divided between the two. In the mentioned context, the two suspects would be caught red-handed by anti-corruption prosecutors after receiving a total of more than 2,000 lei from four drivers,” they say. investigators