Income statements ‘in sight’, but in archive

Another 13 public servants made public their income statements, shows a report by the Association of Independent Press. Ten servants published their tax returns by February 1, when the campaign “Property in Sight” campaign was restarted, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a communiqu? from the Association. Only ten of the 21 members of the Cabinet have published their income statements on official websites so far. Two of the Deputy Prime Ministers, the ministers of foreign affairs, regional development, the environment, education, culture, labor, health and the president of the Academy of Sciences have not yet made their income statements known. The tax return of the governor of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia was published in the news column and was lost among other information on the website www.gagauzia.md. The Association’s head Petru Macovei stated for Info-Prim Neo that the income statements must be posted in a visible place, not in the news column, from where they are transferred to the achieve. Only Speaker Marian Lupu published his income statement on the Parliament’s official website of the 101 MPs. Under the legislation, all the public servants are obliged to submit income statements to the Central Examination Commission by January 31. By March 3, the head of state, the MPs, the members of the Cabinet, the president of the Constitutional Court, the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, the prosecutor general, the head of the Audit Office, the governor of the National Bank of Moldova, the head of the Security and Information Service, the mayors and district heads must publish their tax returns on official websites.