Moldovan Prosecutor General’s Office starts optimization of subordinated institutions

12:44 | 15.04.2016 Category: Social

Chisinau, 15 April /MOLDPRES/-According to the new prosecution law, ten prosecutions will merge into two, while other eight will be liquidated. The new law will enter into force on 1 August 2016.

Thus, prosecutor’s offices from Ceadir-Lunga, Comrat and Vulcanesti districts shall merge into a single prosecution, entitled as prosecution of Gagauz Territorial Autonomous Unit. Prosecutor’s offices from Chisinau municipality’s Botanica, Buiucani, Centru, Ciocana and Riscani districts, as well as Chisinau’s prosecution will merge into a single institution, called prosecution of Chisinau municipality.

According to the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, real estate goods, archives, files, materials and other documents that belong to them, will be passed to the new institutions. The new law also provides that “magistrates of merged prosecutions will continue their activity within the new institutions, while the heads of the former prosecutor’s offices will be appointed as deputy-heads of the chief prosecutor until their mandates expire”.

Another provision of the law sees that prosecutions of the Court of Appeal (from Chisinau, Cahul, Balti, Bender and Balti), military prosecutions (Chisinau, Balti and Cahul), as well as the transports prosecution will cease their activity.

“Magistrates of the given institutions will be able to transfer to other territorial or specialized prosecutor’s offices and occupy vacant positions of prosecutor, excepting the ones of chief prosecutor. Criminal, civil or contravention cases, as well as other documents in the management of the liquidated prosecutions, will be distributed according to the territorial and competency principles, in order to continue procedures in compliance with the legislation in force,” a press release of the Prosecutor General’s Office reads.

Currently, there are 55 prosecutions in Moldova, including the Prosecutor General’s Office.

(Reporter A. Plitoc, Editor L. Alcaza)

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