Financiarul

The human resources and public acquisitions departments are those structures of the Ministry of Administration and Interior (MAI) most exposed to the risks of corruption deeds, the head of the Prevention Service at the ministry’s General Anti-Corruption Directorate (DGA) chief commissioner Paul Milodin told a news conference on Thursday.

The DGA announced, at the news conference, it completed an institutional twinning programme in cooperation with the Internal Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry of German land Hamburg called ‘The alignment of the MAI’s anti-corruption capability with the standards of the European Union members’.

The six-month long twinning programme also called for the achievement of a survey to pinpoint the fields exposed to corruption.

Milodin said that as early as in last autumn he had handed over then Interior Minister Cristian David the results of an analysis showing that the MAI structures most exposed to potential corruption acts are the human resources and acquisition departments.

With respect to the MAI acquisition services, the commissioner explained that there had been cases when the commissions in charge with the public tenders had organised such procedures in such a manner that the contracts be won by certain firms.

He said the chiefs of the MAI structures including the Romanian Police, Gendarmerie, the Inspectorate for Emergencies are to submit the DGA by year-end reports on the implementation of certain anti-graft measures communicated by the Department.

The German Internal Investigation Department official Joachim Schwanke, who attended the news conference, stressed that one of the most efficient moves to curb the corruption risks is to allow the important positions to be held for just three to five years.

The twinning programme benefited from 250,000 euros budget from the European funds, to which added 20,000 euros in Romanian co-funding.