The legislative amendments, which provide for the implementation of the mechanism of extended confiscation of assets accumulated through acts of corruption, were adopted at Thursday’s 14 July sitting of Parliament. The bill was supported in its final reading by 54 MEPs.

“Request to the secretariat – let’s speed up the process, sign it today and send it for promulgation,” asked Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu.

The legislative initiative to amend the Penal Code belongs to President Maia Sandu. It provides for the Criminal Code to be supplemented so as to make it possible to confiscate assets that have been transferred by the convicted person to third parties to avoid confiscation, as well as to confiscate assets in the absence of the accused, in the event of his death or if he fails to appear in court.

Extended confiscation shall be ordered in cases where the value of the property acquired by the convicted person exceeds the amount of 20 average wages in the economy in relation to the income lawfully acquired by the convicted person, and the convicted person cannot provide evidence that the property in question is acquired by means other than unlawful means.