MP of the ACUM Bloc Vladimir Bolea said Eduard Harunjen was named chief of the Prosecutor General’s Office with two big irregularities. The first irregularity is the fact that a person who had held the post of member of the Superior Council of Prosecutors during the past six months cannot apply for prosecutor general. The second is that the prosecutors chosen as members of the Superior Council of Prosecutors detach themselves from posts while in office. The issue was developed in a talk show on Jurnal TV channel, IPN reports.

“These two conditions were violated in the case of the appointment of Mister Harunjen,” stated the MP. According to him, these are very serious reasons that can be used to remove Harunjen from the post of prospector general.

Former chief prosecutor of Chisinau municipality Ivan Diacov said Eduard Harunjen is not the key person at the Prosecutor’s Office, as they say. In fact, the Prosecutor’s Office is managed by the ex-chief of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and Special Cases Nicolae Chitoroagă, who resigned two weeks ago. “Nicolae Chitoroagă was the prosecutor general who decided all the issues at the Prosecutor’s Office and this was decided between them, not inside the party. All the decisions to the Prosecutor’s Office were transmitted through Nicolae Chitoroagă and he put them into practice,” stated Ivan Diacov.

Journalist Alex Cozer said given that Parliament adopted a statement on the state of captivity of the Republic of Moldova, the current prosecutor general should have been removed long ago. “This month we definitely lost a lot of time.  Many proofs were lost and a lot of things that could have been done faster were delayed,” stated Alex Cozer.

The journalist noted the Prosecutor General’s Office is a “bastion of oligarchy”. “Even if the former leader of the PDM Vladimir Plahotniuc left, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the 660 prosecutors remain a big problem for the Republic of Moldova. There is a state that has been built inside the state during many years. The politicians allowed these prosecutors to do everything they wanted, especially after Plahotniuc took over the PDM.

Fadei Nagachevski, adviser to the Parliament Speaker, said the Prosecutor’s Office in the Republic of Moldova is in a deplorable state and the system should be re-set. “The chief of the Prosecutor’s Office will definitely not solve the problem. We should start from re-legitimizing the Prosecutor General’s Office. I think a formula is needed to test the integrity of the 660 prosecutors,” stated the jurist, noting fear persists at the Prosecutor’s Office and the prosecutors are afraid to reveal things.