On Tuesday, June 2, border guards detained another bribing officer at the border inspection post in Greenbev, giving a bribe of €5, the border guards attempted to bribe the Serbian citizen.
In carrying out border checks on persons crossing the State border, border guards identified a Serbian citizen travelling in Latvia who presented a passport with a 5 euro banknote inserted in it to border guards.
The man bribed so that his guided cargo vehicle was not diverted to the scan.
Criminal proceedings have been initiated in respect of bribery against a citizen of Serbia born in 1991 after the first paragraph of Section 323 of the Criminal Law, which was transferred to the Ludza District Prosecutor's Office on 3 June for the initiation of criminal proceedings.
Bribery qualifies as a serious crime for which deprivation of liberty under the Criminal Law of Latvia is threatened for up to five years, temporary deprivation of liberty, forced labour or a fine of ten to two thousand minimum monthly salaries specified by the Republic of Latvia.
“I'm proud that there are honest people working in the interior services who are not tempted to bribe.” “This is the invisible side of our work: we are actively working daily to ensure that our employees are in good faith, fulfil their duties, fight crime and do not tolerate it among themselves,” says the Minister for Home Affairs, Sandis Girgens.
This year, this is 14 cases of bribery, while last year 8 cases of bribery have been identified by border guards, of which in seven cases a fine of 10 minimum monthly salaries has been imposed on persons with a public prosecutor's order. I. EUR 4 300 for each.
Information was prepared by: Kristine Petersone, Chief Inspector General of the Strategic Development and Public Relations Division of the
State Border Guard, Tel. 67075739, mob. 28364592, e-mail: kristine.petersone@rs.gov.lv