Civil servants will be monitored to see what property they have when leaving posts

The Association of Independent Press and the Anticorruption Alliance are launching a new stage of the media campaign “Property in Sight”, within which there will be monitored the income statements made by civil servants when they leave the posts, Info-Prim Neo reports. The Anticorruption Alliance’s secretary Cristina Cojocaru said that emphasis had been earlier put on the income statements that the public servants submit when they are named to posts and the statements that are updated every year by January 30. But there are very important statements that the servants must file when they leave the public post or when their term in office expires, within 20 days. Moreover, one year after leaving the job the civil servant is obliged to lodge one more statement. “The declaration of property by public servants is an efficient mechanism for preventing and identifying cases of corruption in the public service. It must be known what property the servants had when appointed and what property they obtained meanwhile, until leaving the post,” said Cristina Cojocaru. Executive director of the Association of Independent Press Petru Macovei said the law on the declaration and control of the incomes and property of state officials say that the person must submit an income statement when leaving the public post. “The Association of Independent Press and the Anticorruption Alliance start a new stage of the media campaign “Property in Sight”. It is aimed at obtaining the publication of the income statements of public servants who leave the post or whose term in office expires. During the day, we will send official applications to the Parliament of Moldova to transmit the income statements of the members of the 17th and 18th legislatures, of the Greceanyi Government for March 2008 – May 2009, and of the members of the Filat Government for September 2009 – January 2011,” said Petru Macovei. The monitoring of the statements will be performed by the National Commission for Integrity that is to be created under a Parliament decision taken at the end of the spring-summer session. The law has not yet come into force and the commission is to be constituted next spring. Petru Macovei said that 85 income statements have been submitted so far within the campaign. Thirty-three of the 85 persons are MPs, 10 are ministers, eight are managers of agencies, departments and other central public institutions, 26 are district heads and deputy heads and district councils, while eight are mayors.