Head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) Veronica Dragalin said she filed a complaint with the police in October after a lawyer and a deputy allegedly tried to force their way into her office at work.

“I felt threatened enough that I called 112. I was in my office, at work, it was after 5pm-6pm, not many people in the office. That day I did a press briefing about the searches and detentions in the file on the financing of the Shor party. Two men came into the anteroom and then into the office. They were quite aggressive. They introduced themselves as a lawyer and a person with the status of a defendant in some file. I didn’t know them. I asked them to leave the office and they refused and raised their voices. I went over to try to close the door. They put their foot in the door and pushed it hard to prevent me from being able to close the office door,” the prosecutor said in an interview.

She said she later learned that the defendant was a member of parliament. Dragalin avoided saying which party the MP belongs to.

“I was pretty scared at the time. I managed to lock the door and called the police. I gave a statement about what happened, I filed a complaint. There is also a criminal file opened on this case (…). I hope this file will go to court, so we can say these things. I have victim status. I believe that my right to be safe in the place where I work has been violated”, Veronica Dragalin added.

The head of the PA mentioned that since June 2023 she has received state security, explaining that she lives alone in Chisinau and has no personal car.

“When I went to visit relatives I used to go by taxi. Lately I have started to feel not so safe getting into unknown cars, where people recognize me,” Dragalin said.

Recently, the PA’s chief prosecutor was targeted in a scandal over the 2022 contest for the head of the PA. In a separate opinion of three members of the Superior Council of Prosecutors (SCP) against a 2022 decision of the Council, it is mentioned that Veronica Dragalin’s higher education degrees, obtained in the US, were allegedly presented in copies and not equivalent in Moldova.

Ziarul de Gardă obtained several relevant reactions on the subject and presented a timeline of events surrounding the PA head’s diplomas presented at the 2022 contest.