The Moldovan Government goes on feigning openness and cooperation with different institutions in fighting corruption. This is the conclusion of the members of the organizations of the Anti-Corruption Alliance (ACA) after compiling the first report of monitoring the way of applying the anti-corruption reforms, presented at a news conference on Tuesday, May 13, Info-Prim Neo reports. Despite the growing number of reforms and actions undertaken to prevent and combat corruption by the Government, envisaged in the National Development Plan and the National Strategy of Preventing and Combating Corruption, the ACA representatives consider those ones are not applied and do not work properly. ACA's secretary, Mircea Esanu, maintains that now they register a series of violations and deviations on behalf of the leadership in a number of monitored areas. He says the state institutions go on restricting the access to the information of public interest. It is the media which suffer most, but also any citizen willing to get the information he/she needs. The access to the information of public interest is preferential, some are given the information required, others are not. For example, the Center for Corruption Analysis Prevention, the NGO having monitored the work of the Economic Crimes and Corruption Combating Center (ECCCC), has faced tough reluctance on behalf of the Interio Ministry representatives. One more proof that the state entities feign the access to the information of public interest is the report carried out by the Acces-Info Center showing that only 19% of state structures representatives answered the requests for public infos of citizens or NGOs, Mircea Esanu says. Another area recording obvious deviations deals with the ECCCC. They monitored nine cases dealt by the ECCCC and later condemned by the ECHR. Analyzing those demonstrates an enhanced degree of discretion and abusive exercise of duties on behalf of the Anti-Corruption officers. According to specialists, this clearly tells of the restricted freedom of inquest officers and prosecutors, and of violating a series of provisions of the Penal Procedure Code. At the same time, those trials prove the continuation of the abusive practice by the ECCCC. The ACA recommends the ECCCC to undertake more action to enhance the transparency of its activity. ACA warns of the fact that the Government, and other public authorities paid no attention when the campaign “Property in Sight” started following the initiative of the ACA and the Independent Press Association. Mircea Esanu maintains such an attitude on behalf of the state structures proves the rulers' indifference as to the civil society, and particularly as to media. The same degree of Governmental indifference was found in the case of the questionnaire of the Independent Press Association on the inefficiency of “the hot lines” of ministries and state entities. Although some entities took stances as to that questionnaire, the situation does not change. In addition, there is no adequate advertising for those phone numbers, believed to be useful for people. The ACA's monitoring activity is part of the Strengthening Civil Society Monitoring Capacity in Moldova program implemented by the Academy for Educational Development. The program is financed by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and administered by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), within the framework of the Threshold Country Program for Moldova. The general goal of the program consists in strengthening the monitoring and advocacy capacities of the civil society and media to contribute to preventing and combating corruption in Moldova.