Moldovan president signs decree on appointing prosecutor general to office

Chisinau, 8 December /MOLDPRES/ - President Nicolae Timofti today signed a decree on the appointment of Eduard Harunjen to the office of Prosecutor General. The secretary general of the president’s Apparatus, Ion Paduraru, has confirmed the information for MOLDPRES.  

According to Paduraru, the new Prosecutor General today took oath before the head of state and the Superior Council of Prosecutors (CSP).

On 7 December, CSP appointed Eduard Harunjen as candidate for the position of Prosecutor General. The decision was announced following a public contest for holding the concerned office.  

Eduard Harunjen was born in the Cupcini town, northern Edinet district, on 19 May 1972. Starting from 1994 till 1996, Harunjen worked as section prosecutor at the Prosecutor’s Office of Chisinau. Beginning with 1996 until 2005, he acted as deputy head of more sections at the Interior Ministry. In 2011-2013, Harunjen was prosecutor with special missions at the Prosecutor General’s Office; subsequently, he worked as anticorruption prosecutor and first deputy Prosecutor General. Harunjen has held the post of acting Prosecutor General starting from last March.    

Under the new law on Prosecution, the Moldovan president appoints the Prosecutor General, at a proposal by CSP, for a seven-year mandate, which can be renewed.  

The Prosecutor General can be dismissed from office by the president of Moldova, at a proposal by CSP, according to the law, for objective reasons and based on a transparent procedure.  

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor M. Jantovan)