Moldovan president chairs meeting of Supreme Security Council

Chisinau, 26 January /MOLDPRES/ - Embezzlements from the public budget, voluntary sale of state’s properties, lack of independence of justice, persecution of mayors on political grounds and the incapacity of the institutions in charge of identifying and combating the big corrupts are some of the critical issues tackled today by President Maia Sandu at the first meeting of the Supreme Security Council (CSS), the presidential press service has reported.    

„In the lack of a responsible majority in parliament and an acting government, in the situation when more of the state institutions are further controlled by corrupt groups, CSS will be the platform where we will discuss concrete problems, will approach internal and external risks to the state and will take decisions on the liquidation of schemes,’’ Maia Sandu said in the beginning of the meeting, after she had introduced Ana Revenco as adviser on security issues, CSS Secretary.     

The head of state also said that, although representatives of public institutions competent with the fight against corruption were delegated to CSS under the law, she reserved the right not to invite some of them to some meetings, for reasons that she doubts their capacity to take correct decisions dealing with the state’s security.  

Moldovan President Maia Sandu pointed out that, despite some of the most complex legislations and the most sophisticated institutional infrastructures, at the moment, there was no index proving efforts of these institutions to fulfill their duties and carry out real anti-corruption actions.   

„I received the votes of about one million people and this vote was given me, first of all, to fight against corruption and thefts from the state’s property. I will just do this by all means. I will use my every authority to attract the European institutions in the investigation of large-scale thefts, as namely the high-level thefts and corruption represent the biggest threat to the state and its security,’’ Maia Sandu said in her speech. ‘’The inaction of the institutions which must combat these unlawful things turns into real dramas for people – dramas of young people, who leave their children and go abroad or dramas of old people, who hardly survive from pensions worth 2,000 lei,’’ the head of state stressed.   

In the end of the meeting, President Maia Sandu made public those ten priority subjects for the agenda of the next meetings of the Supreme Security Council:

1. One-billion-dollar theft.

2. Granting to concession of the Chisinau International Airport

3. File of insurances companies

4. Embezzlement of the Moldovan patrimony in Ukraine

5. Illegal financing of political parties and electoral campaigns.

6. The money laundering file

7. Contraband with tobacco products

8. Drugs and anabolics’ traffic

9. Illegal clearing of woods  

10. The state capacity of response to the Covid-19 pandemic.  

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