The Accounts Chamber Authorities

The Accounts Chamber may have the authority to draw up administrative protocols for obstructing inspections. The law-in-draft was developed by a group of deputies of the Committee on Legislation, Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Citizens. The Accounts Chamber is the control body of the Supreme Council. Deputies proposed amending the Code of Administrative Offences in order to avoid cases, when an Accounts Chamber employee is not allowed to conduct an inspection on the territory of a controlled facility, industrial buildings, warehouses and storage facilities, or is not provided with documents on economic and financial activities.

The law-in-draft proposes to give the chairman, his deputies, heads of inspections, and inspectors of the Accounts Chamber of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic the authority to draw up protocols for violation of Article 17.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (obstructing the legitimate activities of an employee of the control bodies of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic).

The Accounts Chamber can only send materials on detected offenses to the Prosecutor's Office if such an offense occurs, according to the legislation now. The authors of the law-in-draft consider the current mechanism negatively affects the speed of taking response measures and bringing to justice persons who have committed administrative offenses in the field of finance, taxes, fees, and the securities market.

The law-in-draft amending the Code of Administrative Offenses was supported in the course of the meeting of the Legislation Committee for adoption in the first reading. The initiative will be considered at one of the plenary meetings of the Supreme Council.

Deputies also considered law-in-draft to amend the Criminal Code in the course of the meeting of the Committee on Legislation, Protection of the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens. A technical error in Article 119 was eliminated at the initiative of parliamentarian Alexander Korshunov. Deputies supported the law-in-draft and recommended adopting it in two readings at once at one of the plenary sessions, taking into account the amendment of the Committee. It concerns the strengthening of criminal liability for certain crimes. The decision on the law-in-draft and the amendment prepared for it will be made by the parliamentary corps.