Moldovan approves candidacy of Dumitru Robu for office of acting prosecutor general

Chisinau, 30 July /MOLDPRES/ - The parliament has ruled to put forward the candidacy of Dumitru Robu for the office of acting prosecutor general. A decision to this effect was taken at a today’s meeting with the votes of 78 MPs.   

The candidature was put up by the head of state, who is to decide on the signing of a presidential decree to this end.  

At the parliament meeting, lawmaker Alexandru Slusari said that the decision to nominate Dumitru Robu for the office of acting prosecutor general had been taken based on an analysis of the CVs submitted. “He is a relatively young person, is not present in journalistic investigations, meets the conditions of the Law on Prosecutor General’s Office. We consider that Dumitru Robu has capacities to improve the situation in the sector in a short period,” Slusari noted.     

Dumitru Robu is the deputy chief prosecutor of the Chisinau municipality’s Prosecutor’s Office. He has earlier acted as anticorruption prosecutor. Robu also worked as prosecutor at the section of fighting the trafficking of human beings of the Prosecutor General’s Office and state prosecutor at the transport prosecutor’s office.  

The Superior Council of Prosecutors (CSP) last week was to put forward to the head of state a candidacy for the office of acting prosecutor general. Yet, the exercise failed over the lack of quorum at the CSP meeting. In these conditions, the legislation sees the nomination of an acting prosecutor general by presidential decree, at a proposal by the parliament, with CSP’s notification.     

The former Prosecutor General, Eduard Harunjen, resigned from office on 11 July 2019. Presently, Deputy Prosecutor General Igor Popa exercises the interim duties at the Prosecutor General’s Office.