Moldovan State Fiscal Service's powers to be extended

Chisinau, 16 July /MOLDPRES/ - The State Fiscal Service (SFS) will receive powers of carrying out special activity of investigation and criminal prosecution, in line with the Criminal Procedure Code. The lawmakers adopted a draft law stipulating this fact today.   

As a result of the amendments made to the legislation, SFS will have new powers, which 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, following the amendments’ approval, 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 is to enter into force on 1 January 2021.