The Cabinet endorsed a bill to amend a number of legislative documents with a view to ensuring the state security and counteracting extremist activities. The initiative was put forward by a group of MPs, IPN reports.
Minister of Justice Oleg Efrim said the amendments will create the conditions needed for the Security and Information Service (SIS) to ensure state security. A special security mandate is instituted for the SIS to allow it to take special investigation measures, outside a criminal case.
“Currently, the most efficient special investigation measures can be performed only within a criminal case and only after the offense is committed. The goal of the SIS’s activity is to first of all prevent the actions that can affect state security, to anticipate and counteract them by non-criminal measures,” said Oleg Efrim.
The special security mandate will be issued for a period of 60 days and can be extended, but a special investigation measure based on this mandate cannot exceed 2 years.
The bill clearly regulates the regime of special technical means for obtaining information in a secret way. The use of this technical means by other persons than the state authorities empowered to take special investigation measures will be banned by law. As there are now no regulations in this respect, favorable conditions are created for seriously violating the human rights, especially of the right to private life.
Currently, the illegal actions that impinge on the integrity and territorial inviolability of Moldova are not criminalized. The Ministry of Justice submitted proposals for improving the bill, especially as regards the ensuring of the observance of human rights and the avoidance of abuses on the part of the authorities. The bill is to be passed by Parliament.
