MPs of the Bloc ACUM filed a petition to the Prosecutor General’s Office, saying the Government’s canteen, the villa classed as a historical monument and the Press House (about 2,000 square meters in area) were privatized in non-transparent conditions. They demand to take legal action over the illegal privatization of these facilities, IPN reports.
According to the MPs, an illegal scheme involving high-ranking functionaries was employed to lease out a number of publicly owned buildings situated in central Chisinau several months before their privatization so as to artificially decrease the selling prices and to privatize them in the absence of a contest to choose the lessee.
“Under the outdated regulations, when leased out buildings are privatized, the document concerning the assessment of the facility that is to be privatized is presented by the tenant, which is the person who has the exclusive right to buy the given facility and is not interested in paying more. The privatization commission is not obliged to carry out an own assessment. This is a wonderful corruption scheme to the detriment of the state interests,” MP Alexandru Slusari wrote on a social networking site.
In their application, the MPs say a group of Members of Parliament at the start of May asked the Public Property Agency to provide information about the companies that acquired these facilities and at what sums, if there was a permission from the bodies responsible for the protection of monuments, etc. They said there was no such information on the Agency’s website and the given facilities cannot be even found on the list of property that was put up for privatization.
“We were issued with a letter with a theoretical lesson as to how the leased out property should be privatized. We know to read those regulations. The problem is you do not want to implement them properly. You at least didn’t answer if these facilities were privatized and at what price,” wrote Alexandru Slusari.
The petition was signed by the ACUM MPs Alexandru Slusari, Igor Munteanu, Maria Ciobanu, Kiril Moțpan and Iurie Reniță.
