Corruption and fraud in public procurement remain a problem in the Republic of Moldova and are manifested in the form of illegal bribery, anti-competitive agreements, fictitious companies participation, speculated specifications, unjustified exclusion of qualified bidders and other frauds at the stage of contract execution. There are some of the ideas presented at the eighth training for civil society representatives in the project "Innovative Improvements in the public procurement system of the Republic of Moldova through inclusion, creativity and compliance practices", implemented by IDIS "Viitorul", with the financial support of the European Union.

Head of the Directorate-General for Audit of Public Finance at the Court of Auditors, Natalia Trofim argues that while efforts are being made to ensure the integrity and transparency of the procurement system, an important problem remains the non-compliance with the legal provisions by budget executors / contracting authorities / other parties involved in the process public procurement. Among the irregularities most commonly encountered by the Court of Auditors in the public procurement process are: the non-compliance of the work group's work for acquisitions and the failure to establish the responsibility of each member, the failure to draw up annual and quarterly public procurement plans with non-compliance with the principle of transparency, and impartiality of the members of the working group for procurement and not drawing up the protocols for the opening of tenders.

Olga Tîju from the Institutional Assessment Division at the National Anticorruption Center addressed the participants in the training on the tasks of the CNA in the field of corruption prevention in the public procurement system in the Republic of Moldova, the most frequent risks of fraud and corruption, including in the context of purchases of food products.

Within the CNA there is a mechanism for assessing the risks of corruption in the legislation and activity of enterprises with full or majority state or municipal quota. It is the risk of assets diversion (risk) of the manipulation of procurement procedures, the risk of misappropriation of assets, the risk of overcoming the attributions / abuse of service decision makers within the companies and the risk of deliberate manipulation of financial reports / the risk of forgery in accounting documents

"The integrity of public procurement procedures is an important step that the authorities must undertake to avoid conflicts of interest and rigged auctions," said Valentina Ion, president of the NGO "Equal Partner Woman".

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