Fragile Truths is back for a fourth season! This season opens with an episode exploring anti-corruption reforms in Moldova. Listen to the new episode here or on any major podcast platform.
Transparency International ranks Moldova 76th in its ‘Corruption Perception Index’. With a (hybrid) conflict in the region, solid checks and balances for a resilient democracy are urgent. New steps in the EU accession process create extra momentum for anti-corruption reforms.
At the same time, reforms can be messy on a technical level, while they can trigger resistance on a political level. The season 4 premiere of the #FragileTruthsPodcast investigates the “Momentum for Anti-corruption Reforms in Moldova.”
Our guest Radu Nicolae, from the Association for Cooperation and Sustainable Development, facilitated exchanges between Moldovan and Romanian anti-corruption actors. We discuss the lessons from that process (to be found here) together with our other guest Veronica Dragalin, chief of the Moldovan Anti-corruption Prosecution Office.
Radu Nicolae is the president of the board of Association for Cooperation and Sustainable Development in Romania and an anti-corruption and asset recovery international expert. He has been team leader, key expert or anticorruption and combating organised crime expert in various projects implemented in Romania and at the European level. He assisted the Romanian National Agency for the Management of Seized Asset and the Criminal Asset Recovery Agency in the Republic of Moldova to develop their institutional capacities. He has worked with Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, European Commission and Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative in the fields of anti-corruption and asset recovery. To get in touch with Radu Nicolae, you can follow his LinkedIn, Facebook, Academia.Edu account, and his Research Gate account. You can also follow the ACDD's work via their LinkedIn and Facebook pages.
On August 1, 2022, Veronica Dragalin began her current mandate as the Chief of the Anti-corruption Prosecution Office of the Republic of Moldova, responsible for investigating and prosecuting high-level corruption cases, overseeing a team of over 100 prosecutors, officers, and support staff. Before that, Veronica was a U.S. federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, California, prosecuting public corruption and civil rights cases. Veronica began her career as an associate at a U.S. law firm, working on international criminal investigations including in Europe, Asia, and South America. Veronica is a dual citizen born and raised in Moldova and educated in the U.S. She received her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and her Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University. To get in touch with Veronica Dragalin, you can follow her Facebook account.
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