The number of employees of the Center for Combating Trafficking in Persons will be halved. President Vladimir Voronin gave such instructions at the meeting of the Supreme Security Council held on June 30.

The meeting participants were informed that owing to certain shortcomings in the activity of the Center, there were elaborated illegal schemes for transporting Moldovans abroad, with the involvement and protection of the Center.

Certain employees of the Center, ignoring flagrantly their responsibilities and duties, provided different ‘services’ to traffickers in human beings for payment, such as non-institution or closing of the legal cases opened over trafficking in human beings, hushing up of evidence etc.

Some of the travel agencies created a system for collecting money and became the most common network for transporting Moldovans abroad. According to the presented information, among the CIS states, Moldova is the country with the highest taxes for organizing the transportation of persons abroad. Some 20% of the sums taken by the traffickers from illegal migrants are transferred to employees of the Center for Combating Trafficking in Persons.

It was mentioned that the Ministry of the Interior and the General Prosecutor’s Office do not adequately monitor the activity of the Center, while the Border Guard Service is inactive.

The head of state demanded that the Center’s employee involved in such schemes be sanctioned and ordered the urgent formulation and implementation of a plan of action for remedying the situation in the area// Reporter.MD


Publication date: 01 July 2008   

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