Anastassia Kovalenko-Kõlvart, a member of the Center Party faction, was elected chairperson at the extraordinary session of the special anti-corruption committee of the Riigikogu.
“Today, more than ever, it is important that national processes are transparent and unambiguous. Certainly, one of the commission’s priorities is the operation of the State Forest Management Center,” he said Kovalenko-Kõlvart. “The Environment Agency has finally published a graph showing massive logging for more than a decade. It is necessary to understand the basis on which the prices of the agreement were created and whether the activity of RMK can be considered as prohibited state aid or not. Unfortunately, the actions so far have not been transparent, and there are more questions in the air than answers.”
According to Kovalenko-Kõlvart, the topics of Rail Baltica and Nordica must be continued. “There are more and more danger signs that the state may incur disproportionate costs and even losses to the state with these projects, which is why it is necessary to proactively monitor these processes and ensure from transparency,” explained the representative of the Center Party.
Kovalenko-Kõlvart said that attention must also be paid to the transparency of the state budget, especially to the support of several NGOs and private companies. “The procedure for supporting organizations is not uniform, but is based on the preferences of some ministries. This, in turn, suggests that it may be the personal desires of some ministers, in other words, “roof money”. To avoid such risks, special principles should be developed on which NGOs and private associations receive additional funding from the ministries,” explained Kovalenko-Kõlvart.
