The Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has acknowledged the progress achieved by the Republic of Moldova in setting up an institutional and legal integrity framework to promote integrity and prevent corruption in the top executive functions of the central government and its law enforcement agencies but has also called for improvement in several areas.
GRECO's Fifth Round Evaluation Report on the Republic of Moldova, released today, evaluates the effectiveness of measures in place to prevent and combat corruption in top executive functions such as the president, the prime minister, deputy prime ministers, ministers, secretaries of state, state secretaries of the government, the secretary general of the president's office, the secretary general of the government, presidential advisers and ministerial advisers, and in staff members of the Police and the Border Police. (see the Romanian unofficial translation, as provided by the authorities)
GRECO recognises that Moldova has developed an institutional integrity framework consisting of the National Anti-corruption Centre, the National Integrity Authority (ANI), and the Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office. A National Integrity and Anti-corruption Strategy is also in place. Its integrity legal framework comprises several laws regulating issues such as the assessment of institutional integrity, the management of institutional corruption risks, and the declaration and verification of assets and personal interests, etc. A new law on access to public-interest information came into force in January 2024, and a law on the protection of whistle-blowers came into effect in October 2023.
Republic of Moldova: GRECO calls for improvements in preventing corruption in the central government and the police
