Charge to be brought against former head of Moldova's Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office

Chisinau, 11 January /MOLDPRES/ - The leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office (PG) today informed that decision-makers plan bringing a charge against the former head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA), Viorel Morari, his hearing, as well as the settling of issues as to his suspension from the office of prosecutor.  

A press release issued by PG reads that the criminal file in which the former head of PA is prosecuted was opened on 26 December 2019, under two acts of notification registered at the Prosecutor General’s Office. On the same date, the prosecutor general ordered the competence of exercising of the criminal prosecution to a group of criminal prosecution officers and prosecutors, under the leadership of a PG prosecutor.     

On 10 January 2020, Viorel Morari was recognized as suspect of abuse of power and forgery of public acts, heard on the circumstances of the cause and detained for 72 hours.  

Viorel Morari is suspected of having received a complaint from the former leader of the Moldovan Democratic Party (PDM), Vlad Plahotniuc, which he registered contrary to the legal requirements, opening a criminal file and afterwards the criminal prosecution and falsifying more procedural acts in the criminal file. All these actions were made in personal interests, as well as in the interest of the former PDM leader and more people from his entourage, in order to protect them from involvement as suspects in the criminal file on the bank fraud.  

Within the criminal prosecution, Viorel Morari did not recognize the committing of the offences he is suspected of and does not cooperate with the investigation.