Romania’s Integrity Agency To Continue Screening Public Officials’ Wealth Statements – Draft Law

The draft law also states that public officials will fill in two statements, called "patrimony statements", namely a public statement to present the number of bank accounts and buildings owned by officials, and a confidential statement which includes the names of the banks where the respective bank accounts were opened, as well as public officials' home address.

The public statement will also present the value of the bank deposit.

The new statements will be implemented in June, when wealth statements should be updated.

Prime Minister Emil Boc said wealth statements will be filed with institutions' special staff that will send them further to ANI.

Democrat liberal vice-president Gheorghe Flutur said Monday that democrat liberals, the Hungarian minority party, the parliamentary group of national minorities and the parliamentary group of independent lawmakers uphold the Government's draft law regarding the integrity agency, adding public officials' wealth statements will consist of two parts, namely a public part and a confidential one.

Romanian President Traian Basescu meets Monday with representatives of parliamentary parties for talks on the Constitutional Court ruling which stripped the country's integrity agency of its main attributions in screening public official' wealth and interest statements and recommending prosecution for wrongdoing.

Basescu will hold talks with representatives of parliamentary parties, national minorities and independent lawmakers. Opposition liberals have said they will not attend the talks.

Romania's integrity agency, a EU-backed public anticorruption body, has been stripped of its main attributions in screening public officials wealth and interest statements, following a Constitutional Court ruling. The Court, which motivated its decision last week, the integrity agency's law is unconstitutional, as it breaches the right to privacy and does not apply the presumption of innocence to those investigated.

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