Civil servants invited to bring their “Property in Sight”

The government officials are invited to make public their statements of income and property 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 civil servants and other officials that consider that they have nothing to hide and stick to the principle of transparency of incomes are encouraged to post their statements of income, in full size and in a scanned form, on the API’s site www.api.md and on the Anticorruption Alliance’s site www.alianta.md, a communique from the two organisations says. The anticorruption supplement “Obiectiv” pledges to inform its readers who of the politicians and state functionaries are ready to put their property in sight. 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 publishing their statements of incomes and property if they want, the organisers of the campaign say.