The employees of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) will pay back the sums spent by the central bank on lawyers if the court holds that these acted with ill-intention in the actions or omissions related to the fulfillment of their professional duties, IPN reports.

Given the aforementioned, the executive concluded that the regulatory framework offers derogatory and preferential treatment for members of the executive bodies of the NBM, the liquidator named by this and its personnel. This runs counter to Article 16 of the Constitution, which says that all the citizens of the Republic of Moldova are equal before the law and the public authorities, regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, sex, opinion, political affiliation, property or social origin.

The informative note to the bill says that besides the favorable treatment offered for these categories of persons, the normative framework also unconditionally exempts them from paying for criminal and civil proceedings instituted against them, the related costs being covered by the NBM.

The bill also suggests supplementing the Law on the National Bank of Moldova with a provision that would enable the central bank’s employees to pay by themselves the costs for defending their rights within criminal, civil or administrative proceedings, by taking such a decision themselves.