"If You Don't Stop the Corruption, You Will Be Punished." Maia Sandu Held the First Meeting of the Supreme Security Council

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On January 26, President Maia Sandu held the first meeting of the Supreme Security Council in a new composition. Sandu accused the leadership of state institutions of inaction and threatened them that "people will take to the streets and punish" them. Sandu began the meeting with a message that some members of the SSC will not be invited to discuss some issues, as she doubts that these people can make decisions in the interests of the state when it comes to their interests. Sandu did not mentioned the names. "In the absence of a parliamentary majority, when some state institutions control corrupt groups, this Council will become a platform on which threats to the country's security, internal and external, will be discussed," the president said. According to her, the participants in the SSC meetings will discuss how to minimize these threats and eliminate corruption, which undermines the functionality of the state. "We have the glory of the most corrupt country in the region. Moldova has already developed a bunch of strategies and laws, on paper we had the best infrastructure for fighting corruption and reforming the justice system, people pay high salaries to officials in this area, and corruption continues to grow," she said. Sandu criticized the leadership of some state institutions, highlighting those who advised her to go about her business and solve economic and social problems, and not interfere with the independence of justice. "It is very difficult to help people when the country's budget is constantly being plundered and billions of public money are being taken away, when nothing is being done to stop smuggling and tax evasion," she said. Maia Sandu did not name the state institutions and the names of their leaders, but a portion of the criticism went to the prosecutor's office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Anti-Corruption Center. Sandu highlighted the investigation of the theft of a billion, cases of money laundering, pressure on business, etc. Noting that there is no progress in them, while farmers are fined for protest actions, and local advisers who have dismissed the head of the district are summoned to interrogations. "It is difficult to explain to people that those who stole money six years ago are still spending it, creating parties and applying for government positions. I’m surprised that you don’t see the connection between the inaction of the institutions you lead and the dramas that people live. You manage to punish farmers for protests, summon local councilors for interrogation, who dismissed the head of the district, a relative of Dodon, and you have no time for the rest," Sandu was indignant and said that if state institutions do not start working normally, "people will make it into into the streets and punish them as they can." "I want honest people in this country to be able to live normally. We do not ask for things that are impossible," Sandu emphasized and finished her monologue and the public part of the meeting. The first meeting of the SSC on January 26, we recall, was held in a new composition. As it became known the day before, Maia Sandu on January 25 approved the new composition of the Supreme Security Council (SSC). According to the regulation on the SSC, by right of office, the speaker of the parliament, the prime minister, the chairman of the parliamentary commission on national security, the ministers of internal affairs and defense, the head of the Information and Security Service, the prosecutor general and the president of the National Bank were included in it. In addition, the Security Council, according to Sandu's decree, included the Secretary General of the Presidential Administration Andrei Spinu, four presidential advisers - Anna Revenco (on defense issues), Olesea Stamate (on justice), Veaceslav Negruta (on economics) and Alla Nemerenco (on health issues), as well as MPs from the Action and Solidarity (PAS) party Igor Grosu and Sergiu Litvinenko, MP from the Dignity and Truth Platform (DA) party Chiril Motpan, Vice President of the National Bank Vladimir Munteanu, Expert-Grup economist Sergiu Gaibu, ex-judge, chairman of the administrative council of the Center for Legal Resources Tatiana Raducanu, an expert in the field of domestic policy and security, chairman of the Institute for Strategic Initiatives Vladislav Kulminski.