The Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) did not accept the appeal filed by the former head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office (APO) Viorel Morari, who asked the court to annul the Prosecutor General’s order to suspend him from office. The former chief anticorruption prosecutor went to the SCJ after the hierarchically lower courts rejected his requests, IPN reports.

On June 29, 2021, Viorel Morari filed a lawsuit against the Prosecutor General's Office by which he challenged the administrative document by which he was suspended from office, considering this order illegal. According to Morari, if the prosecutor's guilt is not proven or if a sentence of acquittal or termination of the criminal trial on the grounds of rehabilitation is pronounced, the suspension from office ceases and all previous rights of the prosecutor are restored.

By the May 19, 2022 decision of the Râșcani Court of Chisinau City, the lawsuit was rejected. Viorel Morari challenged the decision in the Chisinau Court of Appeals, which on December 14, 2022 rejected the appeal.

On December 16, 2022, Viorel Morari filed an appeal against the Chisinau Court of Appeals’ decision. In the argued part of the appeal, he indicated that, when issuing the decision to reject the lawsuit, the courts violated the rules of substantive law and misinterpreted the law.

Examining the grounds invoked in the appeal filed by Viorel Morari, in relation to the materials of the case, the SCJ panel of judges dismissed the appeal as inadmissible.

In January 2020, Viorel Morari was accused of abuse of office, forgery of public documents and interference in the conduct of the criminal investigation. At the same time, the Prosecutor General's Office announced that it had initiated another case, for illicit enrichment and money laundering in particularly large proportions, using the held office. A year later, he was charged with abuse of power, unlawful detention or arrest, and knowingly holding an innocent person criminally responsible. Viorel Morari pleaded not guilty on all counts, stating that the then Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo exceeded his authority when he dismissed him from the position of APO head.