R O M A N I A MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS ANTI-CORRUPTION GENERAL DIRECTORATE

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R O M A N I AMINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
ANTI-CORRUPTION GENERAL DIRECTORATE

• AGD approach on regional cooperation in fighting
  corruption

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Romanian anti-corruption legislative framework

• Criminal Code Law nr. 78/2000 on preventing,
  discovering and sanctioning corruption deeds
• Corruption offences
• 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

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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

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Institutional framework

• Ministry of Justice
• National Integrity Agency (ANI)
• National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA)
• Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Anti-corruption General Directorate (DGA)

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MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS - ANTI-CORRUPTION
GENERAL DIRECTORATE

• One of the measures taken for Romanias 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
• deals with prevention and investigation of
  corruption offences
• is a judiciary police unit
• is subordinated to
• the Minister internal affairs, from the
  administrative point of view
• the case prosecutor, from the operational point
  of view.

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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.

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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.

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Romanian Bulgarian cooperation

• 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
• Preventive activities at the common borders
• Working groups with representative of the civil
  society
• Share of best practices
• Operative activities
• Information exchange
• 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
• 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
  Anti-corruption 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

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Romanian Moldavian cooperation

• Common Action Plan on cooperation between
  Anti-corruption 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.

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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

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Romanian-Serbian-Moldavian cooperation

• OLAF Project Strengthening regional co-operation
  for preventing and countering corruption at EU
  external border

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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 Albita (RO)/Leuseni (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.

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Regional cooperation

• Regional Cooperation Council
• Eastern Partnership
• OSCE - Organisation for Security and Cooperation
  in Europe - regional conferences
• BSEC Black Sea Economic Cooperation

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European level cooperation

• EPAC European Partners against Corruption
• EACN European Anti-corruption Network
• IACA International Anti-corruption Academy

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