The former head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office (APO) Viorel Morari was arrested for 72 hours on January 10.

Contacted by IPN for a comment, communicator of the Prosecutor General’s Office Emil Gaitur said the former APO chief is suspected of abuse of power and falsification of public documents.

The inspections ordered by the prosecutor general a month ago at the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases were completed on January 10. When the inspections started, Viorel Morari was suspended from the post of APO head. His appeal against the prosecutor general’s order was rejected.

Earlier, Viorel Morari said Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo wasn’t authorized to delegate him to work at another prosecutor’s office when the inspections were launched at the APO. He presumed that Alexandr Stoianoglo took the decision to remove him temporarily from the APO because he annulled the ordinance not to take legal action over the financing of the Party of Socialists.