National Anticorruption Center: Achievements over 2017 and aims for 2018
National Anticorruption Center (CNA) has drawn up a report for 2017, underlining the institution's main results. Therefore, during the mentioned period of time, CNA officers opened 881 cases, among which 698 were of corruption or linked crimes, 61 for money laundering and 122 for other sort of crimes. Compared to the previous year, the number increased by 3%, while in terms of gravity, 70% were classified as felony, 26% misdemeanours and 4% were infractions.
In 2017, CNA officers have opened cases on the following crimes: 209 - influence peddling, 151 - passive corruption, 91 - going out of jurisdiction, 89 - abuse of power, 69 - active corruption, 24 - official document forgery, 24 - false assets declarations, 21 - false public documents, 16 - negligence at workplace, 8 - unjust enrichment, 7 - bribery, 1 - false accounting documents.
Among institutions, where most corruption cases happened, counts: 119 - justice and internal affairs, 115 - private sector, 100 - local public administration, 96 - security of the budget and public patrimony, 30 - medicine, 16 - education, 9 - military, while among people who committed said crimes counts: police officers (45), directors of enterprises and state organizations (43), customs inspectors (34), managers of local and territorial institutions of public authorities (28), employees from education field (21), mayors (17), judges (10), people responsible in the area of public health (9), investigators (6), prosecutors (5), ministers and vice ministers (4), consul general (4), municipal councilmen (4), councilmen secretaries (4), presidents of regions (3), judicial experts (2), manager of a public agency (1).
In the private sector and freelance were arrested 150 people, among whom 109 were enterprise directors, 24 attorneys and 11 bailiffs. From the territorial point of view, 69% of total crimes were registered in the Capital and the Central parts of the country, 22% in Bălţi and Northern parts of Moldova and another 9% in Cahul and Southern regions.
In 2017, General Directorate for Criminal Investigation of CNA, led by Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, has opened 1939 files, among which 610 cases were closed. The amount of damage caused by the crimes over 2017 was estimated to be around 47 million lei, among which 10 million lei were confiscated, while another 2 million lei were willingly reimbursed by the suspects. At the same time, CNA and Fiscal Service have contributed to the budget with 10.5 million lei.
During this period of time, CNA wrote 842 anticorruption reports, managing to identify around 4000 risk factors, including: excessive discretion of public authorities, aberration from law, excessive requirements to use one's legal rights, lack or insufficient control mechanisms, improper sanctions etc. Within companies promoting integrity, 20 000 employees were trained by CNA.
At the end, the Center has established its priorities for 2018, by taking actions to combat corruption in all important fields, accentuating sectors where citizens often encounter corruption cases, such as education and medicine, but also by identifying frauds in European funds. At the same time, CNA will continue, along with Anticorruption Prosecutor's office, to investigate high-level corruption.