Noutăţi TI-Moldova

The Republic of Moldova is part of the Eastern Partnership since its creation in 2009. Signing of the Association Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union, in 2014, stimulated the process of bringing the parties closer together in the political, economic and democratic fields. In the same year, the visa regime for short-term travel in the Schengen area was liberalized for the citizens of the Republic of Moldova. Within this exercise, the Republic of Moldova committed to comply with certain data security standards, starting with the documentation, border control, combating the illicit trafficking of goods and persons etc.
Following the signing of several international agreements, the citizenship of the Republic of Moldova offers the right of visa-free movement in over 120 countries of the world. As a result, the citizenship of the Republic of Moldova has also become attractive for dubious persons from outside the country who would like to take advantage of obtaining the right to citizenship.

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Transparency International a prezentat recent un studiu pilot de monitorizare a transparenţei autorităţilor locale din 26 capitale europene, datele fiind colectate în noiembrie 2018. Monitorizarea ar putea servi un instrument util în motivarea şi convingerea autorităţilor de a-şi transparentiza deciziile, a le face mai vizibile publicului şi mai deschise pentru participare, sporind, în acelaşi timp, responsabilitatea aleşilor locali. Ideea cercetării porneşte de la compararea capitalelor europene, pentru a înţelege mai bine diferenţele dintre ţări, a cunoaşte cele mai bune practici şi, în final, pentru a îmbunătăţi accesul cetăţenilor la informaţii şi luarea deciziilor.

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A growing number of European Transparency International (TI) chapters conduct regular transparency assessments of the cities at national level. They often serve as a useful tool in motivating and persuading institutions to make their decision-making more visible to public and more open to public participation, while, at the same time, enhancing accountability of elected officials. The idea was to create the pilot comparison of transparency of European capital cities using a limited number of indicators. The overall aim was also to strengthen cooperation among European TI chapters by comparing European capital cities in order to better understand differences between countries, recognise best practices, and ultimately to improve citizens’ access to information and decision-making.

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In 2014, public opinion worldwide was staggered by revelations of a massive money laundering scheme in Eastern Europe published by the investigative journalists from OCCRP and dubbed
the “Russian Laundromat”1. During 2010-2014, billions of US dollars from Russian banks were laundered through Moldovan banks, using illicit court rulings on defaulted fake debts. The laundered funds were further transferred to a group of shell companies having accounts in Western banks. Although law enforcement officers from Moldova pretend to have tracked down $20 billion of suspicious money, publicly available evidence shows that the real amount of laundered funds amounted to as much as $70 billion. Not a single person from the Moldovan banking supervisory or prosecution authorities has been sentenced so far for allowing this to take place on their watch.

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În anul 2014 opinia publică mondială a fost şocată de cea mai mare schemă de spălare de bani din Europa de Est descoperită vreodată, publicată de jurnaliștii de investigație de la OCCRP și numită ”Laundormatul rusesc”. Pe parcursul anilor 2010-2014 miliarde de dolari americani de la băncile rusești au fost spălați prin intermediul instanțelor și băncilor din Republica Moldova,
folosind hotărâri judecătorești ilegale privind datoriile false. Fondurile “curățate” au fost transferate în continuare către un grup de societăți de tip off-shore care au conturi în băncile occidentale. Deși ofițerii de investigații din Moldova pretind că au depistat spălarea a 20 de miliarde de dolari de provenienţă suspectă, dovezile disponibile public demonstrează că suma reală a fondurilor spălate a constituit 70 de miliarde de dolari. Deocamdată nici o persoană din cadrul autorităților de supraveghere și de urmărire penală din Moldova nu a fost condamnată. Dimpotrivă, mai multe persoane responsabile au fost recent promovate la Curtea Constituțională. Această cercetare rezumă argumentele privind modul în care autoritățile de supraveghere și de urmărire penală, subordonate elitelor politice, au ignorat cu bună știință activitățile suspecte, în timp ce Parlamentul și Curtea Constituțională au aprobat modificări legislative și decizii pentru a facilita schema de spălare a banilor.

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Transparency International – Moldova expresses its deep concern about the spread of political corruption in the Republic of Moldova and the superficiality with which some institutions have monitored the parliamentary elections of February 24, 2019, not taking into account the context of the elections and coming out with hasty conclusions about their results.

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During their meeting on 7 February 2019 in Brussels, Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF) Steering Committee issued a statement on Moldova, addressing the situation before the Parliamentary elections scheduled for 24 February 2019. The message coming from civil society is clear: “we call on Moldova’s judicial and electoral institutions to ensure that the country’s citizens will be able to fully exercise their democratic rights”. Unfortunately, the signs coming from the ground are not encouraging: there are reports of hate speech, misuse of public resources and involvement of public employees in the signature collection procedure.

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