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Blackbook-Eng-Web.Pdf OF PUBLIC MONEY WASTE IN REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 2019 CHIȘINĂU 2019 Coordinators: Petru Macovei Sergiu Boghean Translation: Liliana Ursu Editor: Judy Goldman Authors: Svetlana Cernov Victor Moșneag Anatolie Eșanu Tudor Iașcenco Viorica Zaharia Natalia Cozma Mariana Colun Mariana Raţă Layout: Angela Ivanesi Chișinău 2019 This work was published by the Regional Office East and Southeast Europe of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (Sofia, Bulgaria) with the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the program “Expanding Cooperation with Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia.” Neither the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany are responsible for the content of this publication. The opinions expressed therein are exclusively those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom or of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany. This publication may be reproduced, stored or sent in any form or by any means only with the written permission of the publisher. Any questions on its reproduction in conditions other than those mentioned should be addressed to the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom at [email protected] CONTENT Foreword ................................................................................................................. 4 Millions of Lei Misappropriated in Criuleni from Cross-Border Project. District Risks Returning European Money from Its Budget .......................................................................................................................5 European Money on Criminal Company’s Accounts ....................... 33 685 Million Lei. Building Reform Instead of Justice Reform ..... 46 Investments of Millions of Lei in “Green Energy” by Public Institutions Abandoned and Eaten by Rust ......................................... 64 The Boulevard of Incompetence ............................................................... 71 Rezina Road Becomes Unusable after Authorities Invest Over 1.5 Million Lei ....................................................................................... 83 Conflicts of Interests, Protectionism and Hidden Businesses. The Construction Empire of the Millionaire Mayor of Bogzești ....... 89 Why the Renovation of Schools Under the World Bank Project Has Been Delayed ............................................................................................. 96 X-Ray of a Billion Dollar Heist ................................................................105 BLACK BOOK OF PUBLIC MONEY WASTE IN REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 2019 FOREWORD THE BLACK BOOK OF PUBLIC MONEY WASTE is a project of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, implemented in partnership with the Association of Independent Press. We took up with project in order to offer to the Moldovan citizens information about how their money is used. Its main purpose is to contribute to a better awareness of the fact that each citizen deserves to be respected for being taxpayer, for paying their taxes and duties, and that the representatives of public institutions are responsible for the transparent and efficient use of such resources. In this first edition, we present cases when taxpayer money was abusively used through public spending on useless or bad quality projects. In many cases, staggering amounts were used with no justi- fication and without meeting any public needs. This work also brings examples of officials’ low responsibility leading to poor achievements and delays. Finally, it presents cases that raise suspicions of abusive use of public money in the interests of certain persons i.e. conflicts of interests that have come in the sight of the law enforcement. As revolting are the cases of corruption and defrauding of funds coming from assistance projects of the European Union or of other international donors. Although the procedures for spending and control of European money are stricter than in national projects, abuses have been documented by investigative journalists and have thus been in- cluded in the Black Book. This edition focuses especially on clarifying some of such situations. The idea of this project is to reassert the importance of citizen con- trol to prevent notable abuse by the representatives of the governance. Together with media organizations and investigative journalists, we will continue to collect cases of abuse and misappropriation of public funds, and to present them to you periodically. However, such an effort also requires citizen participation. Beyond the above-said, the Black Book is an invitation to all inter- ested parties to work together for a society that is more transparent and more accountable to its citizens and their resources. SERGIU BOGHEAN, Project Coordinator in the Republic of Moldova of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom 4 MILLIONS OF LEI MISAPPROPRIATED IN CRIULENI FROM CROSS-BORDER PROJECT. DISTRICT RISKS RETURNING EUROPEAN MONEY FROM ITS BUDGET SVETLANA CERNOV, „EST-CURIER”, October 2019 A Romania-Ukraine-Moldova cross-border project funded by the European Union that provided for the construction of a waste management service in the District of Criuleni was to- tally compromised by conflicts of interest, mismanagement and misappropriations. The project cost 1,893,819 euros and was to be implemented from 2013 to 2015. The landfill has not been built even as of 2019, although millions have been spent. A significant number of the people involved in the project’s im- plementation have appeared in criminal cases, and the Criuleni District Council has received a summons from Romania to re- turn the European grant money. The council does not want to return the money (investigations are underway to establish who misappropriated it) and would prefer instead to allocate funds for finishing the project. They could then report to the Europeans that the work has been done which would remove the obligation to return the funding and avoid being black listed. The Criuleni District Council, however, has not yet decided how to solve this problem. 5 MILLIONS OF LEI MISAPPROPRIATED IN CRIULENI FROM CROSS-BORDER PROJECT. DISTRICT RISKS RETURNING EUROPEAN MONEY FROM ITS BUDGET. PROMISING BEGINNING Several months before the liberalization of the visa regime for Moldovan citizens when the country was called the “success story” of the Eastern Partnership, Criuleni was with great pomp and cir- cumstance launching two projects for which European money had been allocated: the Cross Border Waste Management Tool for Rural Localities and the Cross-Border Inventory of Degraded Land (CRING). Both received funding from the EU through the Joint Operational Programme Romania-Ukraine-Republic of Moldova 2007–2013 (Ro- Ua-Md JOP), but neither has been successfully completed. The value of the waste project was EUR 1,893,819 and of the inventory of degraded land was EUR 1,935,500. Criuleni District was a partner in both projects and allocated public money for their implementation in the amount of EUR 102,455 and EUR 42,850, respectively, about 2,906,000 lei in all. Hereinafter, we refer to the first project, i.e. the Cross-Border Waste Management Tool for Rural Localities. The second one deserves a separate investigation. On 28 December 2013 at a big ceremony in the meeting room of Criuleni District Council (DC)1 with the participation of the presi- dent of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM) and of then 6 BLACK BOOK OF PUBLIC MONEY WASTE IN REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 2019 ex-Prime Minister Vlad Filat, the implementation of the project with an investment of 1,893,819 euros was announced. The project was to implement an efficient waste management tool based on the experi- ence of neighboring countries Ukraine and Romania in order to have a waste collection and storage/sorting mechanism, “… as clean and as ecological as possible in the future.” The target group was the resi- dents of the three communes of Hrușova, Boșcana and Coșerniţa that encompass six localities in total. The project was to result in two waste landfills in line with all European standards: a new one in the village of Hrușova and an extension to an already existing one in the town of Storojineţ, Storojineţ District, Ukraine. The partner town of Hîrlău, Romania already had such a landfill at that time. Hence, the role of the Romanian side was to transfer their experience in creating a mecha- nism for solid waste collection and management and in organizing a landfill to their partners in Criuleni and Storojineţ. The funding that the Hîrlău mayor’s office received was to improve the service already provided to its citizens. The launching ceremony was attended by then Mayor of Hîrlău Constantin Cernescu who called on the partners to persevere and to educate the population in the correct use of the service but also to be very careful how they managed the resources allocated: “I’d like to wish the project’s implementation team a lot of success and also ask them to be very careful because, many times, if eyes aren’t wide open, the money pouch is, and then we’ll have to give the money back from the revenues of the respective localities’ own budgets. So, be very careful in the implementation of the project!” the Hîrlău mayor said. WHAT HAD TO BE DONE The land plot in Hrușova allocated outside the locality’s boundaries between the villages of Chetrosu and Ciopleni was to be fenced off
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