Legal commission approves National Anticorruption Center strategy

24.10.2012 15:23
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The legal commission for appointments and immunities endorsed the strategy for institutionally strengthening the National Anticorruption Center (NAC). Though the Communist lawmakers backed the bill, they said that it’s not right to approve such a strategy when the institution does not have an officially appointed director, Info-Prim Neo reports. “Dear colleagues, what do we do? We approve strategies, but the institution does not have a director. The Center’s 543 employees cannot work normally,” said Communist lawmaker Anatolie Zagorodnii. The commission’s chairman Victor Popa, of the Liberal Party, said the commission already chose the candidate for the post of National Anticorruption Center head at a public contest. The Standing Bureau is to decide when Parliament will confirm the candidate. The National Anticorruption Center is the lawful successor of the Center for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCCEC). Viorel Chetraru, who was proposed for the post of National Anticorruption Center director, said that the success of the reform of the CCCEC and the institutional strengthening of the NAC will depend on the political will and the allocation of the necessary resources. The draft strategy provides for institutional strengthening costs of 6 to 13 million lei, which will be obtained gradually from international funds. The document also says that the institution’s administration will be named on the basis of a public contest. There will be introduced mechanisms for denouncing influences inside the National Anticorruption Center and for implementing integrity and polygraph tests and ensured clear promotion prospects for employees. The social insurance and salaries are to be increased.