Moldovan State Fiscal Service to have extended powers

Chisinau, 15 July /MOLDPRES/ - The State Fiscal service (SFS) will have new powers, including of carrying out a special activity of investigation, in accordance with the law on special activity of investigations and criminal prosecution, in line with the criminal procedure code. The parliamentary commission for economy, budget and finances considered and approved a draft law to this effect today.

Under the document, the new competences will refer to such offences as the illegal practicing of the entrepreneurial activity, illegal practicing of the financial activity; pseudo-activity of entrepreneur; fiscal evasion of enterprises, institutions and organizations; fiscal evasion of private people; transportation, preservation and commercialization of goods subjected to excise duties, without their marking with control stamps or excise stamps; illegal fabrication of state marking signs, their putting in circulation and use; appropriation, sale in cases non-allowed by the law, hiding of pledged assets, taken in leasing, sequestrated or confiscated; deliberate insolvency; fictitious insolvency; forged accounting documents.   

According to the draft’s authors, the providing of these powers to the State Fiscal Service will ensure the enhancement of the capacity of state’s reaction to the illegal actions which hinder the development of a stable business climate. Also, the draft aims at removing the factors of unfair competition for the economic agents which observe the legal framework, diminishing the shadow economy and strengthening the premises for improving the business climate.  

The authors say that, if the draft is adopted by the parliament, the cooperation of prosecutors with SFS will be enhanced and the criminal prosecution of economic offences will be made preponderantly with the involvement of criminal prosecution officers of the Service. Besides, decision-makers will ensure the partial re-directing of the Interior Ministry’s resources allocated for the investigation of economic offences, in the sense of preventing and combating of other offences.  

The draft will be coordinated including with the business community and is to enter into force on 1 January 2021.