The Parliament’s legal commission for appointments and immunities endorsed the package of anticorruption laws drafted by the Ministry of Justice. The bills will be examined in one of the next sittings of Parliament as urgencies, IPN reports.
According to a communiqué of the Ministry of Justice, the package includes three bills, namely the bill on disciplinary accountability of judges, the bill on the testing of the professional integrity and the bill on the inclusion of a new provision concerning the extended confiscation of property into the Criminal Code.
There was also included a new offense component – illegal enrichment – and the obligation for the candidates for the posts of judge and prosecutor to take the polygraph test.
Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim said the given anticorruption measures were approved with the aim of fulfilling the conditions imposed by the development partners on Moldova for liberalizing the visa regime.
