Civil society doubts correctitude and accuracy of data issued by Commission on controlling functionaries’ wealth
- 02.04.2008 07:51
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The Independent Press Association (IPA), which started the “Property in Sight” campaign, welcomes the decision of the Central Control Commission (CCC) verifying income declarations to make public excerpts from the declarations of some state officials. In 2007 the CCC did not make public the excerpts from the declarations, and in 2006 – it issued them as late as in August, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting IPA.
The NGO appreciates that, in the long run, the CCC has made public practically all the data which is not confidential under art. 13 of the Law on declaring and controlling the incomes and property of state dignitaries and public servants. The last years, the CCC used to present only data on “the total value of property” and “the list of declared goods”, thus breaking the law.
However, the IPA doubts the correctitude and accuracy of the information issued by the CCC. For example, the CCC writes that the Parliament’s speaker Marian Lupu has two apartments and one car. While, within the “Property in Sight” drive, the speaker declared he had only one apartment, mentioning he had sold one in 2007. He sold his car earlier, too. The IPA does not exclude that drawbacks would have been admitted as to the presentation of other officials’ properties. IPA also remarks that the CCC has not presented extracts from all officials’ declarations, the respective communiqué containing data on the wealth of only 72 MPs out of 101. The income declarations of five ministers from the former Cabinet also lack.
IPA considers the progress registered by CCC in processing and publishing extracts from the income declarations is largely due to the media’s pressure exerted within the campaign “Property in Sight” which has been widely mirrored in Moldovan media. The IPA hopes the CCC will remove the mentioned drawbacks, exactly observing the law.
The IPA continues the campaign “Property in Sight”. The parliamentarians, ministers, especially the newly-appointed ministers, the public functionaries, who think they have nothing to hide, are further encouraged to make public the income declarations, posting them on the IPA’s web page – www.api.md. For the last two months, within this campaign, the following officials disclosed their wealth: Parliament speaker Marian Lupu, deputy speaker Maria Postoico, MPs Dumitru Braghis, Grigore Petrenco, Vlad Cubreacov, Valentina Serpul, Vitalia Pavlicenco, Ion Varta, Oleg Tulea and Vlad Filat, Chisinau’s mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, deputy mayor Nistor Grozavu, mayor of Floresti Iurie Tap, deputy Education Minister Ion Ceban, former Health Minister Ion Ababii and present Minister of Informational Development Pavel Buceatchi.
According to the communiqué disseminated by the CCC, the richest dignitary is Moldova’s President Vladimir Voronin, and the richest parliamentarian is the deputy speaker Iurie Rosca. The President has goods assessed at 2.2 million lei and stocks in SA “Banca de Finante si Comert” worth 7 million lei. The Christian-Democrat leader Iurie Rosca has goods worth 1.3 million lei and stocks in “Prag-3”, “Flux”, AP Flux, “Tara” and “Fundatia crestina”.
