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ASSOCIATION LEADER SUGGESTS TWO-IN-ONE SOLUTION AGAINST CORRUPTION
Chisinau. Chairman of “My Moldova” citizens’ association Fedor Ghelici is urging the Parliament to legitimize radical measures to combat corruption – through toughening certain provisions in the Criminal Code.
To make public the new idea, Ghelici convened a news conference in Infotag today, and stated that for such crimes as smuggling, bribe giving and bribe accepting, it is necessary to envisage sentences of 20 years and more, and to exclude even a possibility of probation terms.
“If such a law really comes into effect, on the following day the Government will be at sea, not knowing what to do with an inflow of money. The State Budget will bulge, and the Government will keep on raising salaries and pensions. In a year of living in such situation, Moldova will be admitted to the European Union”, said Fedor Ghelici, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, whose founder and Chairman is Prime Minister Vlad Filat.
Ghelici presumes that, however, nothing will change if the Government does not remove incumbent prosecutors and Customs chiefs, and that “by toughening the legislation in such a way, parliamentarians will prove they are genuine deputies of the Moldovan people”.
“But if only the deputies decline my proposal, then I shall tell everybody that neither the Parliament nor even the Liberal Democratic Party protect citizens’ interests. Look, 85% money is circulating at the black market, and the Moldovan society has split into the poor and the very rich”, stated Fedor Ghelici.
