The new director of the Centre for the Combat of Economic Crimes and Corruption (CCCEC), Sergiu Puscuta, promises that in 2008 the Centre’s activity will focus on a closer cooperation with the civil society for discovering, countering and preventing economic crimes and corruption, Info-Prim Neo reports. Sergiu Puscuta told a press conference on Wednesday that 2008 will be the year of the civic partnership consolidation for CCCEC. Thus, according to the new director, the centre will focus on the cooperation between the central and local public authorities and the civil society. Sergiu Puscuta considers that by increasing the common efforts in implementing a better activity, the centre will reach all the proposed targets and goals. The new director asserts that the new leadership in CCCEC will bring new emphases in the activity of the institution. Thus, it will be now divided into 2 separate divisions. One will operate investigations and the other one will be responsible of analysis and expertise of the causes of economic crimes and corruption. In the context, Sergiu Puscuta pointed out the fact that the center will pay particular attention to the anti-corruption expertise of the Governments’ normative acts, in order to exclude the possibility of conflict of interests or excessive bureaucratization of administrative procedures. Sergiu Puscuta mentioned that 2008 is a crucial year for establishing the functions of CCCEC in the domain of anti-corruption analysis, prevention and education. The centre will analyse the statistics, surveys, criminal cases, and operative investigation information in order to work out a series of complex approaches to different serious problems in the domain of economic crimes and corruption. According to the cited source, more than 350 cases were discovered in 2007. 60% of them involved high-ranked officials.