Experts of the Center for the Analysis and Prevention of Corruption (CAPC) consider that the anticorruption bills of the Ministry of Justice are rather courageous. “By these laws, the Ministry of Justice showed that it is in the vanguard of the fight against corruption,” CAPC expert Gheorghe Iudin told a news conference, Info-Prim Neo reports. The CAPC examined the corruptibility of the draft law on the testing of professional integrity and the set of legislative changes concerning the illegal enrichment and extended confiscation. One of the new elements is the fact that the professional integrity of judges will be tested by agents under cover, who will work at the National Anticorruption Center. “These agents under cover, according to a plan, will ask a public servant to deal with an invented or real problem and will try to corrupt the servant by providing advantages to him,” said the expert. As a result of the testing, the National Anticorruption Center will present the results to the institution where the functionary works. Each institution has the right to impose penalties on the servant, depending on the identified deviations. Even if the bills are considered successful by experts, there were identified a number of shortcomings, including the fact that the notion of professional integrity is not very clear. Another shortcoming is the fact that the agent under cover can offer the functionary only insignificant material advantages during the testing. According to the CAPC specialists, these measures will lead only to the reduction of small corruption, involving a traffic police officer or an ordinary functionary. The report also says that though the law on the testing of professional integrity provides for the disciplinary punishment of public servants who didn’t pass the integrity test, no changes were made to the legislative documents concerning the disciplinary punishment. Gheorghe Iudin said that explicit penalties should be stipulated, including the dismissal on the first deviation.