The draft National Integrity and Anticorruption Program for 2024-2028 and the Action Plan for the implementation of the Program do not offer potential solutions to unlock anticorruption mechanisms to produce results in accordance with the expectations of citizens, civil society, development partners and the private sector, consider experts of the Center for Analysis and Prevention of Corruption (CAPC), who submitted a relevant opinion to Parliament. Even so, the document was given a first reading by Parliament on Thursday, IPN reports.
According to CAPC, the draft National Integrity and Anticorruption Program for 2024-2028 insufficiently addresses issues that previously did not allow exposing the bank fraud. It also does not contain measures to strengthen synergies between policy documents such as the Strategy for ensuring the independence and integrity of the justice sector for 2022-2025, the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Moldova, the National Strategy for preventing and combating money laundering and terrorist financing for 2020-2025, the National Program for the Recovery of Criminal Assets for 2023-2027.
CAPC proposed sending the document back to the authors and completing it with strategic actions to strengthen the prevention and combating powers of the responsible authorities, reviewing impact indicators and establishing reference values for them, as well as reviewing the proposed monitoring and evaluation mechanism.
On Thursday, Parliament gave a first reading to the National Integrity and Anticorruption Program for 2024-2028 and the Action Plan for its implementation. “The specific general objectives of the National Integrity and Anticorruption Program for 2024-2028 represent a continuation of the processes that were previously launched and implemented based on the National Integrity and Anticorruption Strategy for 2017-2023, which was an important anticorruption policy document designed to reduce corruption, with a complex and multidimensional approach. The program aims to diminish corruption and amplify the degree of integrity in the public and private sectors by setting a series of general objectives,” stated PAS MP Lilian Carp, one of the authors of the draft document.
