The authorities should take immediate measures in order to save the banking system, others than taking out preferential loans from the National Bank of Moldova. Such opinions were stated in the talk show “Fabrika” on Publika TV channel, IPN reports.
Manager of the legal consultancy company “Gladei & Partners” Roger Gladei considers such proposals should be formulated by Moldovan and foreign specialists. “I would like national and international experts to submit proposals for remedying the situation. We have a problem involving tens of billions of lei in a system of a hundred billion lei. The banking system is not healthy. But I don’t think that the state should inject more money into it,” said the jurist.
Roger Gladei noted that the Moldovan banking system ‘got sick’ in the period of the third tenure of former National Bank governor Leonid Talmaci.”Within the first two terms in offices, things went well, while in the third term the situation started to worsen. The central bank became less independent. The influence of the political class on this bank became more evident. If the National Bank of Moldova is not fully independent, we should expect unpleasant things in the banking system,” he stated.
Sergiu Ostaf, director of the Resource Center for Human Rights (CReDO), pleaded for keeping Banca de Economii (BEM) in the Moldovan banking system. “The situation at this bank is different from that at Banca Sociala and Unibank. The state owns a shareholding in the BEM. Such a bank should exist in all the countries in transition. However, other methods than injecting enormous sums into it should be found. Parliament should return to the subject of efficiency of public institutions. Society and the government must learn a lesson from this case,” he said.
