Parliament carried in the final reading a bill that defines the list of functionaries with access to the state secret. The list includes the president of the Superior Council of Magistracy, presidents of courts of law and managers of public authorities, such as the director of the National Anticorruption Center, director general of the National Agency for Energy Regulation, president of the Central Election Commission, chairman of the Broadcasting Coordination Council and president of the National Integrity Authority, IPN reports.
The keeping of the state secret will be rewarded with 10% of the salary. Thus, depending on the size of salary, the chairman of the Broadcasting Coordination Council, director of the State Archive Service and director of the National Agency for Energy Regulation will get a bonus of 650 lei a month. In the case of the mayor general of Chisinau, the bonus will be of 950 lei, while for the director of the National Anticorruption Center of 1,050 lei etc.
The document envisions that the right of access to the state secret will be given to the chairman of the Superior Council of Magistracy, while this is to authorize the other Council members to have access to the state secret. The Council members will thus be able to analyze and objectively assess the judges and candidates for the post of judge. The information that represents state secret can be presented only to the ex officio members of Council, such as the ministry of justice, prosecutor general and president of the Supreme Court of Justice.
Criminal punishment is envisioned for revealing a state secret. Disclosure of information that represents state secret by a person to whom this information was entrusted or who knows this information in connection with his/her job, if this is not betrayal or espionage, is punished with a fine of 27,500 to 47,500 lei or up to four years in jail, in both cases with the deprivation of the right to hold particular posts or perform particular activities for a period of up to five years. The same act that results in serious consequences is punished with three to seven years in jail and ban on holding particular posts of performing particular activities for a period of two to five years.
The loss of documents that contain state secrets and of objects the information about which represents state secret by a person to whom these documents or objects were entrusted, if the loss was the result of violation of the rules of keeping these and caused serious consequences, is punished with a fine of 27,500 to 37,500 lei or up to three years behind bars, in both cases with the deprivation of the right to hold particular posts or perform particular activities for a period of up to five years.
