Another three dignitaries make 2007 statements of income and property public

Another three officials accepted to fully publish their statements of income and property for 2007 as part of the campaign “Property in Sight” launched by the anticorruption supplement “Obiectiv” (“Objective”), which is published by the Independent Press Association (API) and the Anticorruption Alliance, Info-Prim Neo reports. The authors of the campaign say that the three dignitaries are the MP Grigore Petrenco, Deputy Speaker Maria Postoico and Chisinau Mayor General Dorin Chirtoaca. Grigore Petrenco’s statement includes the incomes and property earned together with his wife in 2007. According to the statement, the MP earned 186,136.57 lei from his job. The Deputy Speaker declared the incomes earned in 2007 and the property owned at the moment. Maria Postoico together with her husband earned 105,865 lei from their work, including 5,798 lei from creation activity and 54,512 lei as pension. Dorin Chirtoaca also declared the incomes earned in 2007 and the property owned at present. The mayor earned 67,156 lei from his job last year. Speaker Marian Lupu and MP Dumitru Braghis made the statements of income and property public earlier. The statements of income and property of the officials are available in full size on the API’s site http://api.md/news/4335/index.html Under the law regarding the declaration and control of incomes and property of the judges, prosecutors, civil servants and other public officials, the Central Election Commission should publish only extracts from the income statements. But the Commission publishes the extracts with great delay and they do not contain relevant information about functionaries’ incomes and property. Last year, it published no such extracts. At the same time, the law does not hinder the officials from declaring their incomes and property on their own initiative, the organisers of the campaign say.