Moldovan parliament hears report of National Anticorruption Centre for 2022

Chisinau, 12 May /MOLDPRES/ - The head of the National Anticorruption Centre (CNA), Iulian Rusu, unveiled the report on CNA’s work for the last year in the parliament’s plenum today. Under the document, during 2022, CNA officers detected 539 offences, of which 401 were corruption ones.       

In the parliament’s plenum, the CNA head said the institution was facing a lack of staff because of low salaries. He noted that the relations with the Prosecutor General’s Office (PG) and Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) were unclear on the last period and more files with high impact are not investigated by PG and PA.     

„When a physician takes bribe of 500 lei, supervision cameras and other special investigation measures are found and phones are intercepted. I believe that we must focus on the most important cases, which affect our society most of all,’’ Iulian Rusu said.    

He said that 487 criminal files had been opened in 2022. A number of 234 out of these files represented corruption offences and 105 – offences related to corruption ones (abuse of power, abuse of office or illegal enrichment). Also, criminal cases were opened for swindle, embezzlement of alien wealth, money laundering, fake news.  

During the entire 2022 year, the Criminal Assets Recovery Agency levied distraints worth two billion lei.  

Based on the information presented, the parliament’s commission for national security, defence and public order issued a string of recommendations for CNA’s subsequent activity. Thus, the National Anticorruption Centre will contribute, in continuation, to the combating of the systemic corruption, as well as to the combating of the corruption in the field of public procurements, constructions and in the energy sector. Also, it is recommended that the CNA’s work should be oriented including to the carrying out of the programmes on roads’ repair and to the process of management of external funds.      

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