The Anticorruption Labyrinth – a construction in the open air that will enable the people to inform themselves about corruption and methods of reporting acts of corruption – will be set up in the Square of the God’s Birth Cathedral in Chisinau on August 30 and in the central square of Cahul on August 31 starting at 11am.
In a news conference at IPN, Vitalie Verebceanu, head of the Corruption Prevention Division of the National Anticorruption Center, said that the Anticorruption Labyrinth is an idea borrowed from Romania that is put into practice within the Project “Pay ZERO for what is Due to You”. This mechanism will help sensitize society to the phenomenon of corruption.
Iuliana Iliescu, project manager at the Association “Pro-Democratia”, which is implementing the given project in Romania, in partnership with the General Anticorruption Directorate of Romania, said that the Project “Pay ZERO for what is Due to You” has been promoted since 2010 and is aimed at sensitizing the young people to the phenomenon of corruption. The Anticorruption Labyrinth is set up in 20 counties in Romania. In Moldova it is brought to two settlements as a pilot-project and will be later extended to other towns.
The project is supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation. The Foundation’s representative Daniel Seiberling said that this project deserves to be developed. He underlined the importance of involving civil society and the mass media in sensitizing society, saying the phenomenon of corruption can be reduced only this way.
Daniel Mergeanu, head of the General Anticorruption Directorate’s Prevention Division, said the project implemented in concert with “Pro-Democratia” is successful and they plan to carry out other similar activities in this area. Afterward, these activities can be transferred to Moldova.
The Ministry of Youth and Sport is the partner of the project. Deputy Minister Andrei Spanu said the problem of corruption affects directly the young people and these should realize that if it does not affect them now, in several years it can steal their future job, the chance to have better studies and the right to treat their children in appropriate conditions. The officials called on the young people to visit the Anticorruption Labyrinth in Chisinau and Cahul and inform themselves how corruption can be combated.
