Prosecutor Victor Furtună has been appointed by the Superior Council of Prosecutors (CSP) to examine the complaint on alleged illegalities committed by suspended Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo. The decision was taken at the CSP meeting on Friday 5 August and the matter was examined in closed session.

At the request of Ziarul de Gardă, prosecutor Victor Furtună explained that the subject of the complaint concerns alleged illegal enrichment and money laundering.

“It is about illicit enrichment and money laundering. (…) It is suspected that the person, through third parties, owns certain assets that substantially exceed the value of the assets that he could legally acquire. (…) Already at the moment there is a criminal trial, it is to be registered according to the law and the defense, if it has any documents, can present them. And it will be decided, within 30 days, to start or, as the case may be, to refuse the start of criminal proceedings”, explained prosecutor Victor Furtună to ZdG.

Suspended Prosecutor-General Alexandr Stoianoglo, who is under investigation for passive bribery, false statements, abuse of office and overstepping his duties, is being held under provisional release under judicial control.

On 23 May, after more than three hours of debate, the PSC approved the report of the Evaluation Commission and gave the suspended Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo an “unsatisfactory” rating. The evaluation of Stoianoglo’s work was completed at the end of April and the Evaluation Commission approved a report on his work in early May. The members of the Evaluation Commission gave scores from 0 to 10 for each performance indicator attributed to Stoianoglo.

The Commission’s 130-page report reviewed the work of the suspended Prosecutor General. The members of the Evaluation Commission note in the report that during his tenure as Prosecutor General, Alexandr Stoianoglo allegedly tolerated “the apparently lawful activities of his own employees, prosecutors who were involved in the faulty and unlawful handling of disciplinary proceedings, criminal cases that were subsequently dismissed by court decisions or closed due to lack of facts”. Another conclusion of the report is that files of major public interest were examined superficially or by redirecting referrals to other actors who did not have the institutional powers to initiate criminal investigations.

The report also states that Stoianoglo did not implement any “viable policies” on human resources during his tenure. The final evaluation score awarded to Stoianoglo by the committee is – 2.19 points, which corresponds to “unsatisfactory”.