Five people are in the custody of the National Anti-Corruption Center (CNA,) as three stay in house arrest, in the case of expropriating plots of land from a college near Chisinau.

Two suspects are under judiciary control.

According to the head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Viorel Morari, in March 2016, a probe was started as to the attempt of swindling plots of land from a college.

Other parallel probes run investigating a case of forging data in a civil lawsuit, and a graft case.

If found guilty, those 12 people face sentences of up to 10 years and huge fines.