CCCEC to launch anticorruption media campaign

The Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime (CCCEC) will launch a media campaign to raise awareness of corruption at this yearend, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The idea of working out anticorruption spots appeared while implementing other preventive measures and is now a component part of the campaign aimed at sensitizing the population to the risks and costs of corruption and to its destructive effects on the persons that encourage corruption,” the head of the Center’s External Relations and Mass Media Division Angela Starinski has told Info-Prim Neo. Four kinds of vide spots are now being considered. They are based on real cases in which the ordinary man is the one that causes corruption and suffers its consequences. The CCCEC had several meetings with the company that offered to put the Center’s ideas into practice. Each of the participants in the meetings expressed their opinions about the content of these spots and came to the conclusion that the campaign should be based on real situations. The character should be as close to the people as possible. There should be a continuity and close connection between every of the spots that will form part of the set of spots that will be broadcast. The spots will center on the negative effects of corruption and how the cases can be solved. They will call on the people not to encourage corruption and contain the phone numbers that can be used to report corruption-related cases. “We want this campaign to prove the necessity of preventing corruption cases and their risks and of motivating every citizen to engage in the fight against corruption,” Angela Starinski said. The campaign is supported by the Joint Project of the Council of Europe and the European Commission against Corruption, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in Moldova (MOLICO).