The Audit Office reports on the medical and energy sectors for 2012, analyzed by experts of the Independent Analytical Center “Expert-Grup”, revealed that public funds of 400 million lei were mismanaged. One third of this sum was classed as unjustified losses.

In a news conference at IPN, “Expert-Grup” project coordinator Dumitru Budianschi said that according to the reports of the Audit Office, the thermoelectric companies CET-1, CET-2, and CET-Nord and the National Clinical Hospital and the Mother and Child Center risk losing an important part of their property because they didn’t register it at the Cadastral Office.

The Chisinau hospitals and the thermoelectric companies have rather extensive adjoining plots. As they weren’t registered atthe Cadastral Office, there are persons who register them or constructions situated on them and the courts of law rule in their favor, depriving thus a public institution of property.

Economist Tatiana Savva said that most of the irregularities in managing property are related to the inventorying of goods and their non-registration at the Cadastral Office. In the case of CETs alone, 100 million lie has been mismanaged because the property hadn’t been registered at the Cadastral Office.

A thermoelectric company is in litigation with a person who registered a plot to the value of 4 million lei, which de facto belongs to the company, at the Cadastral Office.

After seeing the Audit Office report, CET-1 registered property to the value of 80 million lei, while CET-2 – 90 million lei. But the situation at medical institutions didn’t improve, said Tatiana Savva. An area at the Mother and Child Center was leased out, but the costs for maintaining it are paid by the public institution, though the contract provides that the costs must be covered by the lessee.

The think tank says the public institutions often make such ‘presents’ owing to human or technical mistakes.

Expert-Grup produced the report within a project supported by Soros Foundation Moldova.