The authorities turned their attention to the generous monetary gifts indicated by the officials in the property statements. One of the proposals is that in the case of such fights to the value of over €5,000, the names of the people who gave them should be indicated. Another proposal discussed is that the monetary gifts should be taxed, IPN reports.
“Enviable generosity in relation to some of the officials. At wedding and christening parties, at birthdays – you wondered what interesting guests they invited, guests who were so generous. 10,000, 20,000, 80,000. I was saying that I had one wedding party in my life, but it wasn’t like that. If you cover the expenses, you are the happiest person after marriage,” said Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu.
According to him, it is obvious that it is a loophole through which some tried to legalize money of suspicious origin. “We also discussed within our parliamentary group. We should either name the generous people or tax this money. We want the money to be declared and taxed. If they are lucky with gifts, they should share them with the citizens and the state. We must do away with this find,” noted the Speaker.
Prime Minister Dorin Recean requested that the Ministry of Justice should draft a legislative initiative to introduce the declaring of people who offer gifts. “Today we are considering birthdays and anniversaries as we already have prosecutors, judges, leaders of political parties who declare so-called family events and collect tens of thousands of euros there. Normally, there should be no doubts about the integrity of these people,” stated the official.
According to him, , the people who made gifts in the amount of €5,000 and higher should be declared initially. “If the subject of the declaration indicated an amount higher than €5,000 as a cumulative gift on a birthday or an anniversary, it means that they are obliged to declare the persons who made the given gifts. We will turn our attention to birthdays and anniversaries and if we notice that they have a wedding party every year, we will intervene,” said Premier Recean.
