Update 12.12: The chief anticorruption prosecutor Viorel Morari will be assigned to work for a month at the Prosecutor General’s Office, while the chief prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases Dorin Compan will return to his post of prosecutor at the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office. Later today the prosecutor general will choose persons who will manage the two institutions on an interim basis, IPN has learned from the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo instructed two groups of prosecutors to carry out complex inspections at the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases. Viorel Morari was suspended from the post of chief of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office.

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the prosecutors will examine the activity of the two specialized units in all the areas of responsibility according to the indicators stipulated in ordinances since 2016 until now.

Contacted by IPN, acting head of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases Dorin Compan said there were conducted no such complex inspections since the institution was founded on August 1, 2016. “The prosecutor general clearly stated that he wants to familiarize himself with all the activities and criminal cases handled by the specialized prosecutor’s offices. This is the goal of the checks. The results will be made public when these are over,” he noted.

Viorel Morari confirmed for IPN the information that he was suspended, but didn’t give details.

Alexandr Stoianoglo was appointed Prosecutor General on November 29, 2019.