The National Anticorruption Center, as a result of an assessment, ascertained the risk of rigging of driving tests by favoring candidates, by corruption and influence peddling. In a press release, the Center says the presence of these risks is actually proven by the fact that an increasing number of persons who assert that they can influence functionaries who assess knowledge within driving tests are arrested by NAC officers, IPN reports.
The sums asks by intermediaries for favoring the passing of exams for one test vary between €350 and €500, while for both of the tests (theory and practice) rise to €1,000, depending on the geographical area of the country.
According to NAC, the cases for such corrupt behavior derive from the procedure for holding the exam and the conditions for obtaining the right to drive a vehicle, which are defective. Some of the candidates are admitted to the exam in the absence of an earlier scheduled appointment. Another problem is the fraudulent making of appointments that are later used in the interests of other persons for illegal rewards. Such kinds of services are unrestrictedly proposed through social networking sites as well.
Another aspect identified during the assessment is related to the normative framework concerning the procedure for registering motor vehicles, which is defective and abusive. By allowing the registration and transfer of the ownership right over vehicles that are searched by the police in the country and abroad and of vehicles with intentionally destroyed identification number or with the falsified number, conditions are created for legalizing possible illegal schemes.
The legislation on road traffic safety gives excessive powers that can generate abuses to particular authorities. A relevant example is the defective norms concerning the procedure for destroying driver’s licenses and the discriminatory norms regarding the procedure for changing the license obtained in the Transnistrian region. NAC formulated and presented recommendations to the Vehicle Registration and Driver Qualification Department, the Government and responsible ministries, whose implementation is to be later monitored.
