​MOLDOVAN PARLIAMENT WILL HOLD HEARINGS ON SCANDALOUS SITUATION WITH NUTRITION AT CHISINAU SCHOOLS AND KINDERGARTENS

Next week, the Moldovan Parliament will organize hearings on the situation with feeding children at Chisinau schools and kindergartens, it was decided at the Thursday’s plenary meeting of the legislative forum on the proposal of the largest faction of the Party of Socialists.

“We must hear responsible officials. How could it happen that for a long period of time our kindergartens were supplied with foodstuffs with expired storage life?! This scandal must be investigated most thoroughly, and the responsible must be punished”, stated Socialist MP Grigore Novac.

He proposed to summon the Minister of Education, Minister of Health, Director of the National Food Security Agency (ANSA) and Director of the National Anti-Corruption Center (NACC) to the Parliament.

Novac said: “It is very strange that the said “schemes” of purchasing bad foodstuffs for children have been made public only now and that arrests are going on precisely now, though it is known that this case has been run by the NACC last 9 months or so. And here we are: “suddenly”, one day before voting in the Parliament for approving the country’s 2017 Fiscal Policy, detentions and arrests began in the city! This makes us think that the ruling coalition is going through its new internal bargaining, and the arrests are used as an instrument to make Mihai Ghimpu’s Liberals more tractable and force them vote for the draft Fiscal Policy. If this is really so, then we are watching another proof of the “high quality” of the ruling coalition”.

The Parliament decided to hold a hearing on the “food for kids” scandal next week.

As already reported by Infotag, on Thursday morning NACC officers detained 23 officials on suspicion of involvement into machinations at purchasing expired food products for kindergartens and educational institutions. Now corrupt municipal officials and dishonest food suppliers may be heavily fined and receive up to 10 years in jail.