Agency for Prevention of Corruption

Information on submitted reports on incomes and property

The reports are published on the website of the Agency
July 26, 2019

According to data from electronic database, since the beginning of the year until 24 July 2019, the Agency for Prevention of Corruption received 7,213 reports on incomes and property of public officials and civil servants, 5,667 of which are the reports of public officials and 1,546 are the reports of civil servants.

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From 1 January to 24 July 2019, the Agency submitted to competent misdemeanour courts:

  • 179 requests for initiation of misdemeanour proceedings against public officials and civil servants, who failed to submit their regular annual reports on incomes and property, which were due on 31 March 2019;
  • 34 requests for initiation of misdemeanour proceedings against public officials and civil servants who failed to submit their regular annual reports on incomes and property when they started and terminated their public function;
  • 7 requests for initiation of misdemeanour proceedings against public officials who submitted incomplete and inaccurate data in their reports on incomes and property;

With regards to the previous year, during 2019 there was a decrease in the number of mentioned misdemeanour orders related to violation of legal obligation of submitting to the Agency regular annual report on income and property of public officials within a legally prescribed deadline.

The mentioned data, as well as the fact that the number of submitted reports increased to 7,213 in 2019 (comparing to 6,510 in 2018) confirm the results of the activities taken over by the Agency on raising awareness of law abiders, by continuous education in the area of reporting on incomes and property of public officials.

Table 2. Misdemeanours related to non-submission of regular reports on property

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Note: Civil servants of the Ministry of Interior, Police Administration, Customs Administration, Tax Administration and Administration for Inspection Affairs of Certain Job Positions are obliged to submit to the Agency their reports on incomes and property in compliance with special regulations.

All reports submitted to the Agency are continuously administratively and technically verified, and consequently published on the website of the Agency.

In the second quarter of 2019, the second phase of verifying the accuracy and completeness of the data in received reports was initiated, conducted in accordance with the Annual Verification Plan which is based on the previous-year Revised Annual Plan adopted in compliance with the recommendations of the Council of Europe experts. The Plan envisages the verification of accuracy and completeness of data from 839 reports on incomes and property.

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Currently, there are 210 reports in verification process, twice more than in the same period of the previous year. Besides this, additional 52 reports are in verification process ex officio (upon the report of natural and legal persons, anonymous persons, media allegations, etc.).

The Agency underlines that it has established, via its information system, the access to databases of several state institutions in real time, and thus additionally improved the efficiency of the controls of reports on incomes and property and that the selection of property cards for control is done by the method of a random sample, by the means of a software, excluding the participation of the employees of the Agency. The Agency will timely inform public on irregularities identified during the procedure of verifying the data on reports on incomes and property.

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