Moldovan civil society, parliament representatives to co-chair working group on anti-corruption system relaunch

Chisinau, 12 October /MOLDPRES/- The working group on reforming and relaunching the Moldovan anti-corruption system will be co-chaired by representatives of both the civil society and the parliament. Thus, the head of the Centre for Analysis and Prevention of Corruption, Galina Bostan, and the chief of the parliamentary commission for rules and immunities, Raisa Apolschii, have been appointed as chairwomen of the group, the parliament’s communication and media relations department has reported.

At their first meeting, chaired by Parliament Speaker Adrian Candu, the group members spent more than two hours exchanging views and suggestions on the organisation, activity and objectives of the working group.

Participants insisted on the need to set up precise priority efforts that will help the group ensure its efficient activity and meet the deadline.

The group members also discussed organizational matters, focusing on decision-making ways, internal information flow and communication, as well as actual solutions to relaunch the anti-corruption system.

Thus, at the next working meeting, scheduled for early next week,  the members of the working group agreed to assess the architecture and efficiency of the present national anti-corruption system, from the phase of ascertaining to the recovery of damages, in order to establish the gaps, as well as the best solutions to reset the system on the whole.  

“We have procedures which do not work, therefore the working group ruled to quickly assess all the agents of fighting corruption, in order to come up with the best solution to reset the entire system,” the parliament speaker said. At the same time, Andrian Candu stressed that both the Supreme Court of Justice and the Superior Council of the Magistracy were to unveil reports on considering corruption-related files. “The Justice has been lately blamed for the files sent by the Prosecutor General’s Office going quite slowly, therefore, the Justice wants to respond to this charge and present concrete data on the stage of the files’ consideration,” the speaker specified.     

Subjects on the adoption of the regulation on the activity and unveiling of the Transparency International Moldova Report on the national integrity system, elaborated in 2014, are also on the agenda of the next meeting of the working group.

(Editor A. Raileanu)