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Based on the success of the PACO
Moldova anti-corruption project in
2005, an agreement for a follow-up
project was signed in July 2006
between the Council of Europe, the
European Commission and the Swedish
International Development
Cooperation Agency (SIDA). The
MOLICO project started in August
2006. It will have a duration of
three years and a budget of Euro 3.5
million and is aimed at the
following objectives:
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to ensure the implementation
of Moldova’s anti-corruption
strategy on the basis of annual
action plans
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to strengthen the anti-money
laundering/counter-terrorist
financing (AML/CTF) system of
Moldova in accordance with
international standards and good
practices as well as Moneyval
recommendations
The
Centre for Combating Corruption and
Economic Crime (CCCEC) of Moldova is
the main counterpart institution in
Moldova.
Activities
 Anti-Corruption component
Anti-Money Laundering
component
Our
activities in October 2008
Study visit on
Combating the Financing of Terrorism
(Giessbach II), Davos (Switzerland)
The study visit, held from 1 to 3
October 2008, focused on the
following topics: the use of
intelligence in detecting terrorist
financing; the importance of
reaching out to the civil sector;
terrorist financing typologies;
trends in the development of
terrorism; fighting terrorist
financing and protecting human
rights: a dilemma?; effective
implementation of the international
standards on cash couriers;
cyber terrorism / how do terrorists
use modern technologies?; the misuse
of offshore structures so as to
assist the financing of terrorism;
how to find, collect and analyse
information on terrorists using
Internet and leading-edge
technology; confiscation and
recovery of terrorists assets; the
role of financial intelligence and
the use of technology in CFT;
cooperation between law enforcement
and private sector; CFT technical
assistance needs in transition
countries.
Agenda
Series of
trainings, workgroups and
anti-corruption seminars for public
relations officers from law
enforcement agencies and
investigative journalists, Chisinau
(Moldova), 7-10 October 2008
The events were scheduled as
follows:
7 October 2008 – Assessment visit
and working group meeting for
drawing up the communication
strategy of the public prosecutor’s
service;
8 October 2008 – Training for
investigative journalists on
understanding the conflict of
interest– a tool for media in
uncovering corruption: why it
matters and how investigative
journalists can make the best use of
it
9 October 2008 - Training for law
enforcement representatives on
public communication;
10 October 2008 – Workgroup meeting
on developing guidelines for
investigative journalists and TV
Public debate on the role of the
prevention of corruption and the
impact of corruption in the
education system.
Outline of the meetings: scope and
objectives of the communication
strategy; structure and main
principles of the communication
strategy; communication channels
(internal, external,
inter-institutional communication);
methods and means of implementing
the communication strategy;
monitoring and evaluation of the
communication strategy; how the
concept of conflict of interest is
helping journalists to keep
officials accountable; main
principles of the conflict of
interest and its regulation in
Europe and what impact it has on the
work of journalists; Moldovan
situation in the conflict of
interest, asset disclosure and
access to information; case study on
public information access for
journalists.
Link
to the
Agenda
Study visit to
FIUs of Austria, Slovakia, Hungary
and to UNODC
The participants visited Vienna (13
October), Bratislava (14 October)
and Budapest (16 October 2008). The
aim of the visit was: to exchange
experience, establish direct
contacts with Egmont FIUs and thus
promote Moldovan FIU within the
Egmont community; and, to
discuss with the UNODC goCase
project team the possibility of a
deployment of the goCase software in
the CCCEC.
Link
to the
Programme
3rd Seminar on
the training programme on media
relations for public relations
officers from law enforcement
agencies, Chisinau, 20-22
October 2008
With the participation of: PR
officers from the Center for
Combating Economic Crimes and
Corruption; the General and
Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office
from the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and CoE experts.
Link
to the
Agenda
2nd
Anti-corruption train of trainers’
course for public officials from
local public administration
“Introducing Corruption Proofing as
a Preventive Measure for Local
Public Administration”, Chisinau, 23-24 October 2008
This activity supported the
implementation of the GRECO
recommendations. It ensues that, as
a drawback, the 5th GRECO
recommendation, which stipulates the
adoption of the code of conduct for
public servants and its circulation
among public servants and the public
at large, was only partially
implemented.
With the participation of: the Chief
of the Prevention Unit from the
Center for Combating Economic Crimes
and Corruption; the Director of the
Center for Analyses and Prevention
of Corruption.
Main aspects dealt with:
qualification of corruption and
related offences; conflict of
interests; professional ethics of
civil servants; preventing
corruption in local administration
through peer evaluations; risk
assessment methodology; corruption
proofing methodology and its
applicability in the work of local
public administration; case studies;
national legislation on corruption
proofing of normative acts and the
best practices in implementation;
workshops on the corruption proofing
methodology and the risk factors;
petitions and requests for access to
information; settlement procedures
by local public authorities and
administrative courts.
Link
to the
Agenda
and List
of participants
4th Mission on
risk assessment for Judiciary and
NIJ “Strengthening the Integrity of
the Judiciary in the Republic of
Moldova through Risk Assessment and
Implementation of Integrity Plans”,
Cahul, Balti and Chisinau,
27- 30 October 2008
The main topic of the meeting was
the evaluation of the existing
preventive mechanisms of the court
and/or evaluation of the
vulnerability to corruption.
Link
to the
Agenda
“Train the Trainer Program for the
Module “Corruption Risk Assessment
in Public Institutions”, Chisinau, 28-29 October 2008
Link
to the
Agenda
Training for
Moldovan FIU on exchange of
information with Egmont and
non-Egmont FIUs, Chisinau,
31 October 2008
MOLICO experts have developed a
guide for the Moldovan FIU on
information exchange. The training
provided the latter with
explanations on the use of this
guide. As a result, the FIU
compliance with Egmont Group, FATF,
Council of Europe requirements in
the realm of information exchange
will be enhanced
Link
to the
Agenda
Our
activities in September 2008
Study
visit to the Joint Vienna Institute
for the purpose of an AML/CFT
training course for criminal justice
officials, Vienna (Austria), 1-5
September 2008
Anti-corruption
train of trainers’ course for 40
public officials from local public
administration, Chisinau (Moldova),
11-12 September 2008
Conference
on information exchange between FIUs
and the Workshop on data security
for FIU, Vadul lui Voda (Moldova),
18-19 September 2008
2nd
Regional Conference of Financial
Intelligence Units, Miedzeszyn
(Poland), 29-30 September 2008
Methodology on
Corruption Proofing to be presented
at GRECO session in Strasbourg
During the 38th GRECO Plenary Meeting (9-13 June 2008) the
Moldovan delegation made a presentation on the anticorruption
expertise of draft legislative and regulatory acts, on 12 June
2008.
The presentation was made by Ms Mariana Kalughin, Chief of
the Directorate for Legislation and Anticorruption expertise of
the Centre to Combat Economic Crimes and Corruption and Ms Galina Bostan, Director of the NGO,
Centre for Analyses and Prevention of Corruption.
Moldovan representatives presented national experience in this
field, including legislative framework, objectives and stages of
expertise, corruption proofing methodology as a result of
cooperation between the state body empowered by law to carry out
the expertise and a non-governmental organisation, active in this
field.
The implementation of the corruption proofing methodology of draft
legislative acts started in Moldova in 2006 with assistance of the
Joint Project of the Council of Europe and the European Commission
against Corruption, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in
the Republic of Moldova (MOLICO).
Presentation
on the methodology on corruption proofing
Efficient monitoring, coordination and management of the
anti-corruption strategy ensured and
annual action plans available
Anti-Corruption National Strategy of Moldova
Anti-corruption
National Action Plan_2007-2009
Perception
of the Corruption Phenomenon in the Republic of Moldova
Press
Releases on the survey
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