Premier asks for amendments to Law on Special Investigative Activity

Prime Minister Vlad Filat ordered created a working group that will immediately formulate amendments to the Law on Special Investigative Activity and the Penal Code. The working group will involve executives of the Ministry of Justice, the National Anticorruption Commission, the Security and Information Service, and the Prosecutor General’s Office, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the Premier, the changes are needed in order to offer these institutions more instruments in their work. “In parallel with entrusting serious tasks to these institutions, we must also offer them the necessary instruments so that they are able to perform these tasks,” said Vlad Filat. The order was made in the January 16 meeting of the Cabinet.