United Kingdom to provide support to Moldova's National Anticorruption Centre for recovery of crime assets from abroad

Chisinau, 23 September /MOLDPRES/ - The director of the National Anticorruption Centre (CNA), Iulian Rusu, and a delegation of experts from the United Kingdom today discussed the subject on the recovery of crime assets.   

According to CNA, at the meeting, Iulian Rusu stressed the importance of the cooperation with the counterpart authorities from the United Kingdom, in order to facilitate the process of recovery of assets from the UK territory and which belong to people who are hiding from the Moldovan justice.    

The CNA director also referred to the authorities’ efforts to strengthen the institutions’ capacities to ensure their good functionality. According to Rusu, although the Crime Assets Recovery Agency (ARBI) and prosecutors make huge efforts to investigate the perpetrators and recover the crime assets, a better work of all state institutions, involved in the justice act, is necessary. ‘’We are in the full swing of reformation of the self-administration bodies of judges and prosecutors. They are subjected to the procedure of external evaluation, the pre-vetting. We expect also the first results soon. The recovery process depends also on the tempo with which the judicial system is moving and certainly, on its  integrity,’’ the CNA director stressed.       

For their part, the English experts, who presently provide consultancy to the British government, as former prosecutors on cases of money laundering and fighting terrorism, expressed willingness to provide operational support in the part dealing with ensuring the recovery of the crime assets which are under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom.