The Ministry of Justice within a week will present the details of a plan to strengthen the architecture of the anticorruption bodies. President Maia Sandu said that institutions’ efforts to combat corruption must be strepped up, and the National Anticorruption Directorate of Romania is a model in this regard, IPN reports.

At Monday's meeting of the Supreme Security Council, it was decided to tighten the legislation to punish more harshly those involved in political and electoral corruption. "When we talk about the inefficiency of the fight against political corruption, obviously we are also talking about the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office," Maia Sandu said in the program "Emphasis on Today" on TVR Moldova channel.

According to the head of state, the shortcomings in the process of combating corruption make it necessary to strengthen the efforts of the responsible institutions. Also, the vetting process will continue, although it is intensely criticized and even sabotaged.

"What we have seen over time and what has been confirmed in recent months is that the institutions work in an insular way and we do not have an understanding of the whole picture and the efforts of each institution are too small in relation to the need to fight corruption. It is clear that consolidation and cleaning are needed. And vetting comes to do this," said Maia Sandu.

It was reported that the specialized prosecutors' offices – the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office and the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases - could be liquidated and replaced by a single institution. The first institution started work in 2003, and the second one was founded in 2016.