Income statements ‘in sight’, but in archive
Another 13 public servants made public their income statements, shows a
report by the Association of Independent Press. Ten servants published
their tax returns by February 1, when the campaign “Property in Sight”
campaign was restarted, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a communiqu? from
the Association.
Only ten of the 21 members of the Cabinet have published their income
statements on official websites so far. Two of the Deputy Prime
Ministers, the ministers of foreign affairs, regional development, the
environment, education, culture, labor, health and the president of the
Academy of Sciences have not yet made their income statements known.
The tax return of the governor of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of
Gagauzia was published in the news column and was lost among other
information on the website www.gagauzia.md. The Association’s head Petru
Macovei stated for Info-Prim Neo that the income statements must be
posted in a visible place, not in the news column, from where they are
transferred to the achieve.
Only Speaker Marian Lupu published his income statement on the
Parliament’s official website of the 101 MPs.
Under the legislation, all the public servants are obliged to submit
income statements to the Central Examination Commission by January 31.
By March 3, the head of state, the MPs, the members of the Cabinet, the
president of the Constitutional Court, the president of the Supreme
Court of Justice, the prosecutor general, the head of the Audit Office,
the governor of the National Bank of Moldova, the head of the Security
and Information Service, the mayors and district heads must publish
their tax returns on official websites.