The Pre-Vetting Commission has completed the evaluation of prosecutors Mariana Cherpec, Iuri Lealin, Olesea Vîrlan and Elena Roșior, candidates for membership in the Superior Council of Prosecutors (SCP). According to the Commission, the four meet the integrity criteria and pass the evaluation, it is announced in a statement on Friday, June 30.

Detailed information on the outcome of the checks is contained in the decisions sent today to the candidates and to the PSC, the institution responsible for organising the competition in this case.

“At this stage, the Commission is only entitled to communicate information on the outcome of the assessment, as the decisions can only be published with the consent of the candidates concerned. They must notify the Commission whether or not they object to publication within 48 hours of receiving the decision, according to Law 26/2022. Decisions may be appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice within 5 days of receipt, under the provisions of the same law,” according to the press release.

Mariana Cherpec, a prosecutor in the Chisinau Municipal Prosecutor’s Office, Main Office, and Iuri Lealin, a prosecutor in the General Prosecutor’s Office, were heard by the Pre-Vetting Commission during the first round of hearings to become eligible for a position as a member of the main self-administrative body of prosecutors. Candidates Olesea Vîrlan, interim Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Ialoveni District Prosecutor’s Office, and Elena Roșior, Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Anenii Noi District Prosecutor’s Office, were heard in the second round of public interviews. The hearings focused on issues of financial integrity and ethics.

Out of a total of 18 candidates, registered in the competition for the position of member of the PSC, so far, six candidates have passed the evaluation, eight candidates have not passed, and four candidates are awaiting the verdict of the Pre-Vetting Commission.

Eighteen persons have applied for the position of member of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Council, including 17 prosecutors from the General Prosecutor’s Office, territorial and specialised prosecutors’ offices and one representative of civil society. ZdG wrote who are the eight prosecutors awaiting the decisions of the Pre-Vetting Commission and how their hearings before the Commission members went.