Bogdan Zumbreanu will head the National Anticorruption Center (NAC). The current head of the NAC General Prosecution Division was confirmed to post by Parliament on December 15. He was proposed by the Parliaments’ expert commission that staged a public content to fill the post. The NAC director serves a term of five years and cannot be reelected. Bogdan Zumbreanu took an oath in Parliament, IPN reports.
Bogdan Zumbreanu said that even if the NAC is not empowered to formulate legislative proposals, he will soon submit a number of proposals for transforming the Center into an institution that would meet the expectations.
Liberal-Democratic MP Maria Ciobanu asked Bogdan Zumbreanu if he knows how many cases Moldova lost at the ECHR owing to his lack of professionalism. Zumbreanu replied that no ECHR decision will contain a legal document signed by Bogdan Zumbreanu for which Moldova was convicted. When asked by Ciobanu if he considers he has the moral right to hold the post of NAC director after so serious illegalities were committed in the country during his term in office, such as the banking fraud and the concession of the airport to the detriment of the state interests, Zumbreanu said he is a professional who knows things from inside and knows what he has to do and has a team of specialists with whom he intends to improve the institution’s image.
Lib-Dem Tudor Deliu said the contest to choose the candidate for the post of NAC director wasn’t held transparently. The Lib-Dems didn’t vote for Zumbreanu as NAC director.
Asked by Liberal MP Alina Zotea if he will facilitate the coming of anticorruption specialists from Romania to investigate political cases in Moldova, Bogdan Zumbreanu said there are not political cases in Moldova, but there are criminal cases that involve politicians. The legislation does not allow involving foreign prosecutors in investigations, but they can learn from Romania’s experience in corruption fighting.
In the same sitting, Parliament confirmed Oleg Sternioala as vice president of the Civil, Commercial and Administrative Disputes Board of the Supreme Court of Justice for a four-year term and Nina Vascan as judge of the Supreme Court of Justice up to the age limit of 65. Ian Postu, Mariana Timotin and Serghei Turcanu were accepted as members of the Superior Council of Magistracy, while Lilia Margineanu as a member of the Superior Council of Prosecutors.
