“The depoliticization of the Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime (CCCEC) is the cheapest solution for combating corruption in Moldova,” the executive director of the Human Rights Resource Center (CReDO) Sergiu Ostaf said on the opinions and comments platform Vox Publika, Info-Prim Neo reports. Sergiu Ostaf considers that the CCCEC must be depoliticized by making it directly responsible to Parliament and granted the de facto status of anticorruption prosecutor’s office. The policies on the conflict of interests should be implemented consistently and the ethical and exemplary behavior of the political class should be modeled. “The steps taken to control and combat corruption point to the institutional weakness and the lack of an efficient mechanism for making the relevant bodies responsible. The institutional weakness is due to the political influence exerted on the CCCEC, the absence of a credible and powerful body for civilly monitoring the CCCEC, the lack of procedures and mechanisms for ensuring institutional responsibility by making concealed information about the results of the Center’s work public,” said Sergiu Ostaf. He recommended setting out the principles on the conflict of interest, creating a civil body for examining the conflicts of interest, involving civil society and the mass media in identifying conflicts of interest and transferring the given cases to the depoliticized and autonomous anticorruption bodies as efficient and non-costly measures for preventing corruption in Moldova.