The Members

The National Anticorruption Centre (NAC) is the national authority specializing in the prevention of and fight against corruption, corruption related acts and corruptible deeds. The NAC has the following tasks:

• Preventing, detecting, investigating and curbing corruption offenses, as well as acts of corruptive behavior.

• Preventing and combating money laundering and terrorism financing, according to Law no. 190-XVI of 26 July 2007 on preventing and combating money laundering and terrorism financing.
• Applying the CAN’s anti-corruption expertise in the drafting of legislative acts and of normative acts of the government, as well as other legislative initiatives submitted to Parliament, in order to ensure their compliance with state policy to prevent and combat corruption.
• Ensuring the performance of corruption risk assessment within public authorities and institutions through training and consultation, monitoring and analysis of data on corruption risk assessment, as well as coordination of the drafting and fulfillment of integrity plan.

The Anti-Corruption Centre, along witha civil council  composed of representatives from NGOs, monitors how the NAC fulfills its tasks.

The Centre is a centralized and hierarchical authority, consisting of a central office and three regional subdivisions. From 2011-2016, the NAC also exercised the role of Secretariat of the Monitoring Group for the implementation of the National Anticorruption Strategy (NAS) , which represents the main instrument of public policies and aims to reduce corruption in the public and private sectors in the Republic of Moldova. To this end, the NAS has two general objectives:

1) Zero tolerance for corruption; and

2) The transformation of corruption from a high-pay and low-risk activity into a low-pay and high-risk activity. The NAS is overseen by a monitoring group,  which consists of representatives from ministries, Parliament, the judiciary system and civil society,  and it convenes on a quarterly basis.