The examination of property and personal interests will be extended to cover one of the spouses, the parents or children of the person who is subject to scrutiny, if there are suspicions that the property was registered in the name of other persons. Also, if the subject of declaration indicated incomes and goods obtained from donations, the donor will also be examined. This is provided in a bill to amend the law on the National Integrity Authority and the law on the declaring of property and personal interests that was given a second reading by Parliament, IPN reports.

Under the bill, the declarations of property and personal interests that are examined annually are selected randomly and are approved by the Integrity Council, depending on the corruption risk factors, vulnerability of the subjects of declaration or of their professional activity.

PAS MP Olesea Stamate, who is one of the authors, said that of all the declarations of property that are annually verified by the National Integrity Authority, at least 30% will refer to MPs, ministers, judges, prosecutors, managers of autonomous public institutions. This way, most of the property statements will not refer to local elected officials and to minor violations only.

The MP noted that the bill introduces the notion of “market value”. The subjects declare the tangible and intangible assets at the value at which they were bought. Their market value will be determined by comparing the market value of similar goods by kind, quality and age, by comparing other similar indicators or by an assessment.

The bill also regulates the declaring of virtual goods, such as the Bitcoin.