Anti-corruption prosecutor Mirandolina Sușițcaia has been suspended from her post. The decision was taken on Friday, 17 November, by the Superior Council of Prosecutors (SCP), which admitted the request of interim Prosecutor General Ion Munteanu to issue the agreement on the suspension from office, after several meetings in which consideration of the issue was postponed.

One of the SCP members issued a separate opinion, Council President Angela Motuzoc announced, without saying who it was.

Susitcaia is under criminal investigation for illicit enrichment and abuse of office.

“Prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organised Crime (PCCOCS) are investigating the actions of the prosecutor of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Mirandolina Suzitscaia, in a criminal case initiated in 2022. It was initiated on the fact of illicit enrichment and abuse of office, and several criminal prosecution actions are currently taking place, which also involve the contribution of the National Anti-Corruption Centre’s (NAC) Criminal Assets Recovery Agency. Further details cannot be disclosed at this stage of the investigations, and the person concerned is presumed innocent, according to the law,” PCCOCS announced in July, according to realitatea.md.

Mirandolina Sușițcaia headed the prosecution group on the “Laundromat” case. In October 2021, she was restricted the files in which the controversial businessman Veaceslav Platon is targeted, by an order of the acting Prosecutor General Dumitru Robu.

“There were certain doubts about the investigations she made. At the same time, the media appearances of dubious meetings with certain characters in the file. This has cast doubt on her objectivity and impartiality in carrying out the prosecution of these cases. For these reasons, it was decided to withdraw the files on Veaceslav Platon and Laundromat”, Mariana Cherpec, the prosecutor in charge of communication with the media of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PG), told Ziarul de Gardă.

The acting prosecutor general also signed an order delegating anti-corruption prosecutor Mirandolina Sușițcaia to a subdivision of the PG.

ZdG reported in October 2020 that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office decided to remove from prosecution the judges under investigation for complicity in money laundering in the “Laundromat” case. Orders against them were issued as early as September, signed by Mirandolina Susitcaia, but the decisions have not been publicly announced by the prosecution bodies.