In order to eradicate corruption in Moldova, it is important not to fight it, but rather to step up the corruption prevention measures, Victor Colin, of the National Anticorruption Center , said in the program “Place for dialogue” on the public station Radio Moldova, IPN reports.
According to the CAN officer, among the prevention measures are the testing of the integrity of public functionaries and decision makers and the liquidation of the population’s legal illiteracy by awareness-raising campaigns. “The people must realize the risks of taking or offering bribe and conditions should be created for the functionaries to have more disadvantages than advantages from taking bribe,” he said.
Victor Colin, who heads the CNA’s Civil Interaction and Training Division, also said that the population should realize that bribe offering is punished as bribe taking. “In 2013, we had only four cases of active corruption (bribe offering), but last year there were investigated 32 such cases. Despite the growth, the figure is small compared with the total number of cases of corruption identified by the CNA in 2014 – 570. I think the discovery of more cases of active corruption will make the people refrain from offering bribe to functionaries for solving particular problems,” he stated.
According to Victor Colin, justice and public order remain the most corrupt areas in Moldova. They account for 72% of the total number of cases examined by the CNA last year. A large number of corruption cases were also discovered in the area of public budget security, particularly as regards the holding of public auctions and tender contests.
The lowest bribe offered last year in the cases examined by the CAN was 100 lei, while the largest – US$115,000.
