Seven state institutions signed a joint order regarding the creation of the National Coordination Task Force for the criminal asset recovery, in order to make the prevention and fight against corruption and organized crime more efficient.

Seven state institutions signed, today, a joint order regarding the creation of the National Coordination Task Force for Asset Recovery. The signatories of the document are the National Anticorruption Center, the General Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the National Integrity Authority and the Superior Council of Magistrates.

The creation of the Platform/Task Force and the signing of the Joint Order are dictated by the need to streamline the process of asset recovery and the need to create a Task Force that would facilitate the recovery of criminal proceeds from corruption and organized crime. The Platform's attributions include: discussing and solving issues related to the asset recovery process, ensuring the implementation of decisions taken by entities within the limits of legal powers. This is the first Task Force in the Republic of Moldova created to prevent and fight organized crime and high-level corruption, through the cooperation and direct involvement of all responsible authorities, especially anti-corruption bodies, those fighting organized crime and their supervisors, those responsible for the system of identification, freezing/seizure and confiscation of proceeds of grand corruption and funds used by organized crime.

The members of the Platform/Task Force will normally meet once a quarter, extraordinary when necessary, and by January 31, they will prepare an annual activity report, which will then be submitted to the National Security, Defense and Public Order Committee of the Parliament. Secretarial activities will be provided by the Criminal Assets Recovery Agency within the National Anticorruption Center.

The institutional control over the execution of the provisions of this order was nominally assumed by the director of the NAC, Mr. Alexandr PINZARI, the interim General Prosecutor, Mr. Ion MUNTEANU, the Minister of Justice, Ms. Veronica MIHAILOV-MORARU, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Adrian EFROS, the Minister of Finance, Mr. Petru ROTARU, the interim president of the Council Superior of the Magistracy, Mr. Sergiu CARAMAN and the president of the National Integrity Authority, Mr. Lilian CHISCA