Anti-Corruption to launch study in state officials' properties

By the year-end, the Anti-Corruption Alliance will launch a research on the state officials' properties, as the results of the study will be made by mid February. Declaring and checking the incomes of state functionaries could be an efficient mechanism t5o prevent and combat corruption, the alliance's secretary general Mircea Esanu has told Info-Prim Neo. The public servants are obliged to declare their incomes they gained during their last year of work, as well as all the types of assets gained since their last declaration on incomes and property. But the legal provision concerning the assets is treated differently by dignitaries, some stating only the properties they gained during the last year, others – till the date of submitting the statement. The Central Control Commission – the state's watchdog for this area – is much late in publicizing the excerpts with relevant information about the civil servants' incomes and properties. According to the Anti-Corruption Alliance's secretary, a study in this respect would highlight the drawbacks of the Law on declaring and checking the incomes and properties of state dignitaries, and would propose recommendations to improve it. The study will be carried out by experts or NGOs selected in a contest organized by the Anti-Corruption Alliance. The deadline to submit the applications is December 15.