Last three lawmakers make income statements public

The last three income and property statements for 2011 were published on the Parliament’s website. The deadline for submitting such statements was March 1. The three MPs who submitted the income statements with delay are Veronica Abramciuc, Raisa Apolschii, and Valeriu Guma, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the statements, Socialist lawmaker Veronica Abramciuc last year earned over 136,000 lei in salaries and over US$1,400 and 8,000 lei in interest on bank deposits. She owns two plots to the value of over 3,000 lei and two apartments - a one-room one and a three-room one. Democratic MP Raisa Apolschii declared that in 2011 she earned over 132,000 lei in salaries. She owns a house bought in 2006, an apartment, and two cars – one purchased in 2007 for €13,500 lei and another one bought n 2011 for €6,000. Democratic lawmaker Valeriu Guma received salaries of 136,000 lei. He declared neither plots or houses and cars. The “Property in Sight” campaign carried out by the Association of Independent Press and the Anticorruption Alliance shows that 535 public servants have so far made public their income and property statements for 2011. Even if the law obliges them to make the income statements known, some mayors argue that the institutions they head to do have a website or the official site is temporarily unavailable. Among the mayor’s offices that do not have websites are those of Basarabeasca, Donduseni, Floresti, Glodeni, Sangerei and Taraclia towns. The district councils of Donduseni, Edinet, Taraclia and Floresti do not have sites either. Under the law, the head of state, the lawmakers, the members of the Government, the head of the Constitutional Court, the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, the prosecutor general, the chairman of the Audit Office, the governor of the National Bank of Moldova, the head of the Security and Information Service, the mayors of towns and villages and the distinct heads must publish their income and property statements within 30 days of the expiration of the term for submitting the statements, in local or national mass media outlets and on the official websites.