MPs of the Anticorruption committee plan to announce a new competition for NABU auditor

On January 18 the Parliamentary committee on anticorruption did not manage to consider the issue of NABU auditor due to absence of quorum.

Next meeting of the Committee will be held on February 7. Members of the committee plan to announce another competition for NABU auditor; interested candidates will be given two weeks to apply.

At the same time, majority of the committee rejected the idea of recommending the parliament to consider candidacies of Martha Boersch and Carlos Castresana, who won previous competition in the committee.  

In the meantime, International Anticorruption Advisory Board under Rada’s Anticorruption committee in its report released in late 2017 recommended to abolish legal opportunity of dismission NABU director following negative opinion of the audit. They considered respective provision to be a tool of political pressure on NABU.