Transcript R O M A N I A MINISTRY OF ADMINISTRATION AND INTERIOR

ROMANIA
MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
ANTI-CORRUPTION GENERAL DIRECTORATE
AGD approach on regional
cooperation in fighting
corruption
Rule of Law: Implementing a comprehensive and integrated
approach in prevention and fight against corruption in the Danube
region”, 04-05 November 2013
Romanian anti-corruption legislative
framework
 Criminal Code & Law nr. 78/2000 on preventing,
discovering and sanctioning corruption deeds
 Corruption offences
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Bribe taking
Bribe giving
Receiving undue advantages
Trading influence
 Crimes assimilated to corruption offences
 Crimes in direct relation to corruption offences
 Crimes against the EU financial interests
International anti-corruption instruments
Romania is party to:
 Council of Europe Civil Law Convention on
Corruption
 Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on
Corruption
 Additional Protocol to Council of Europe Criminal
Law Convention on Corruption
 UN Convention against Corruption
 UN Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime
Institutional framework
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Ministry of Justice
National Integrity Agency (ANI)
National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA)
Ministry of Internal Affairs
 Anti-corruption General Directorate (DGA)
MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS ANTI-CORRUPTION GENERAL DIRECTORATE
One of the measures taken for Romania’s accession to the EU was the
establishment of an anti-corruption unit within the MoIA.
AGD:
 was set up in 2005, as the specialized anti-corruption unit, with competence
in this field
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deals with prevention and investigation of corruption offences;
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is a judiciary police unit;
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is subordinated to:
• the Minister internal affairs, from the administrative point of view;
• the case prosecutor, from the operational point of view.
AGD’ s responsabilities
 Investigating corruption offences;
 Judicial police activities, according to law;
 Prevention activities and coordinate raising awareness campaigns;
 Integrity testing activities;
 Receive the citizens’ complaints/ petitions;
 Draft risk and strategic analysis and propose procedural measures to
improve the situation.
Cooperation
 Bilateral/regional cooperation, through the initiation of the
contacts with the similar foreign agencies and regional
organizations, in order to establish the methods of cooperation and
the development of the previous contacts with the foreign partners;
 Multilateral
cooperation
within
international
organizations/networks, which have initiatives on combating
criminality and especially corruption;
 Operational cooperation through the specific channels of MoIA
with the competent authorities from other states, in order to solve
the operational situations that have occurred in the current activity
of AGD.
Romanian – Bulgarian cooperation
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Common Action Plan for cooperation between AGD within the Ministry of Interior and
Administrative Reform of Romania and Inspectorate Directorate within the Ministry of
the Interior of the Republic of Bulgaria in the field of preventing and combating
corruption, signed in Burgas, on 26.07.2008
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Preventive activities at the common borders
Working groups with representative of the civil society
Share of best practices
Operative activities
Information exchange
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Common action plan for cooperation between AGD within the Ministry of Administration
and Interior of Romania and the Internal Security Directorate within the Ministry of
Interior of the Republic of Bulgaria, signed on 10.04.2012
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ISEC 2011 project - Enhancing police internal affairs departments in EU member
states, with partners: Center for the Study of Democracy and Internal Security
Directorate
ISEC 2012 Project „Development of the civil society involvement in drafting,
implementing and assessing anticorruption policies”, with partner: Center for the
Study of Democracy
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Romanian – Hungarian cooperation
 Protocol on co-operation between the Anticorruption General Directorate within the Ministry
of Administration and Interior of Romania and the
National Protective Service within the Ministry of
Interior of Hungary in the field of preventing and
countering corruption, signed in Budapest, on
03.05.2012
Romanian – Moldavian cooperation
 Common Action Plan on cooperation between Anticorruption General Directorate within the Ministry of
Administration and Interior of Romania and Centre for
Combating Economical Crimes and Corruption from
the Republic of Moldova, signed at Galati, 21
September 2010.
 At present, the CCCEC from Moldova became the
National Anti-corruption Centre, after being
reorganized in 2012.
Romanian - Serbian cooperation
 Protocol of co-operation between AGD within the
Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Internal Affairs
Sector within the Ministry of Interior of Serbia in
the field of preventing and countering corruption,
within the legal competences, signed on
04.10.2012
Romanian-Serbian-Moldavian cooperation
 OLAF Project “Strengthening regional cooperation for preventing and countering
corruption at EU external border”
Case study – co-operation with NAC Moldova - 2013
- co-operation between AGD (Romania) and National Anti-corruption Center (Moldavia)
- Joint Investigation Team
- taking bribe and trading influence committed by Romanian and Moldavian employees
within the Border Crossing Point Albiţa (RO)/Leuşeni (MD).
- criminal files drawn up in Romania and Moldavia.
- simultaneous searches - RO (27) si MD (53).
- 140.000 de euro were lifted during the searches in Romania.
- criminal pursuit against 28 Romanian employees (24 customs employees and 4 border
policemen).
- 33 Moldavian employees were retained (19 customs employees, 13 border policemen and
1 economic police employees). Investigations are ongoing.
Regional cooperation
 Regional Cooperation Council
 Eastern Partnership
 OSCE - Organisation for Security and Cooperation
in Europe - regional conferences
 BSEC – Black Sea Economic Cooperation
European level cooperation
 EPAC – European Partners against Corruption
 EACN – European Anti-corruption Network
 IACA – International Anti-corruption Academy
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