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Prosecutor general suspended from post for period of investigation


https://www.ipn.md/en/prosecutor-general-suspended-from-post-for-period-of-investigation-7967_1084848.html

The prosecutor designated by the Superior Council of Prosecutors to examine aspects invoked by PAS MP Lilian Carp about Alexandr Stoianoglo decided to take legal action against the prosecutor general and to suspend this from post for the period of the investigation, Minister of Justice Sergiu Litvinenco posted on his Facebook page.

The minister said the deputy prosecutors general were also suspended and the Prosecutor General’s Office remained now without administration.

Sergiu Litvinenco noted that even if the law provides that the Superior Council of Prosecutors is convoked in five days of the occurrence of such a situation, an extraordinary meeting needs to be convened immediately so as to select an acting prosecutor general that will be confirmed by the President.

The Superior Council of Prosecutors in an extraordinary meeting on October 5 decided that prosecutor of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office Victor Furtună will examine the aspects invoked by PAS MP Lilian Carp in the claim about Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo.