During 2019, the heads of the General Prosecutor’s Office, of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS), the Chișinău Municipal Prosecutor’s Office received revenues of over 1,000 euros, donations and bought new cars.

Ziarul de Garda analyzed the declarations of assets and personal interests of the head prosecutors from the main prosecuting institutions, providing details on their incomes and transactions.

Stoianoglo’s First Salary as General Prosecutor

Moldova’s General Prosecutor, Alexandr Stoianoglo received around 90 euros during his first month in office (December 2019). Previously, he was employed at the CMI Finland – Crisis Management Initiative, with its headquarter in Helsinki, where he received a salary of around 29,000 euros, for 2019. 

Stoianoglo’s family has two real estate properties, a 161 square meters apartment worth around 49,000 euros and a 60 square meters apartment worth around 44,000 euros.

Stoianoglo family also mentioned that it owns a Hyundai Tucson from 2017, bought in the same year for over 18,000 euros, and a Mitsubishi Outlander made in 2005, and bought in 2007 for over 4,000 euros. 

The family also has two bank accounts with around 12,000 euros.

Ruslan Popov, one of the wealthiest deputies of the Prosecutor General, lives in a luxurious house in Mileștii Mici, Ialoveni district, center of Moldova. 

He has two Hyundai cars, made and bought in 2017. He also sold, in 2019, a 122 square meters apartment for over 44,000 euros. The apartment was in Chișinău and it was specially built for employees of the Prosecutor’s Office. 

In the previous year, Ruslan Popov received a monthly salary of over 1,000 euros from the Office of the Prosecutor General. He also received over 4,000 euros from the National Institute of Justice, the Moldova State University and the La Strada Centre. During the previous year, Ruslan Popov had several work trips abroad, in Romania, Serbia, and Spain, for which he was granted a total of around 4,000 euros. 

Also last year, the deputy of the General Prosecutor indicated that he lent his father around 52,000 euros, which his father will return by 2040, without an interest rate. 

Since 2014 and 2016, Iulia Popov, the prosecutor’s wife, has two debts worth 15,000 euros to her parents, Ion (who has deceased in the meantime) and Pelaghia Oprea. She will return the money by 2034 and 2036, respectively. 

The prosecutor’s declaration does not reflect the eight agricultural lands bought by the prosecutor’s family at the beginning of the previous year.

The other two deputies of the Prosecutor General, Mircea Roșioru and Iurie Perevoznic, did not sell or purchase things last year. In 2019, Mircea Roșioru received around 2,000 euros from the Office of the Prosecutor General. 

Iurie Perevoznic received over 5,000 euros from the Judicial Inspection from the Superior Council of Magistracy from July to December 2019. Perevoznic also received a salary of 800 euros from the Centrul de Drept al Femeilor for his activity until July 2019. 

The Interim Head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office Receives Imposing Incomes

As of December 2019, the interim head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office is Serghei Gavajuc, who previously was interim deputy of the Anticorruption Prosecutor, and head of the North Prosecutor’s Office.  

According to his 2019 declaration of assets and personal interests, Gavajuc received over 18,000 euros from the Prosecutor’s Office and over 1,000 euros from the Alecu Russo State University, in Bălți, North of Moldova. 

His wife received around 26,000 euros from the Stela Gavajuc prosecutor’s office, where she worked. 

Last year, the Gavajuc family obtained over 31,000 euros from selling goods of the Elecanplus company and revenues of around 26,000 euros from leasing. 

The prosecutor’s family has two lands, an apartment, a 107 square meters house, and two real estate properties. The prosecutor also declared a Skoda bought in 2016 for around 5,000 euros and a Mercedes bought in 2018, worth around 8,000 euros. 

Gavajuc had over 21,000 euros in his bank account and his wife over 37,000 euros. 

Eduard Varzar, the deputy head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office received, in 2019, a salary of over 17,000 euros and obtained around 8,000 euros from selling a Toyota Prius made in 2010. 

In 2019, Ion Munteanu declared only revenues from his salary, which is around 1,500 euros monthly. 

Adrian Procoava received in 2019, a monthly salary of over 1,000 euros from the Cantemir Prosecutor’s Office, where he is the head of the institution and the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office where he is the deputy head. 

Another deputy head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, Marcel Dumbravan sold, last year, a Renault Scenic from 2004 for 300 euros and bought a car for around 10,000 euros, of the same brand, made in 2015. In 2019, Dumbravan received a salary of over 17,000 euros. 

The fifth deputy of the Anticorruption Prosecutors, Vladislav Cojocaru, head of the Căușeni Prosecution received 5,700 euros donation from Vera Morosanu and a 4,900 dollars donation from Veronica Morosanu.

Last year, the prosecutor sold three lands for around 2,000 euros and bought half of a land in an urban area for over 2,500 euros. He also received a monthly salary of over 1,000 euros.  

Many prosecutors working at the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office received donations in 2019. The prosecutor Eugen Balan and his wife received donations worth over 10,000 euros from their parents. The family sold a BMW for 9,000 euros and bought an Audi A6 made in 2015, for 25,500 euros. 

The prosecutor Andrei Balan also received a donation worth around 500 euros from his parents. The prosecutor Mihail Ivanoc declared that during the previous year, he received as birthday presents from his family members over 1,000 euros. 

Another anticorruption prosecutor Vitalie Ivanov declared 5,000 euros and a part of an apartment in Chișinău as donations from his wife’s parents. 

Octavian Iachimovschi declared donations worth 6,000 euros. He is one of the prosecutors who leads the criminal investigation group on the bank fraud case. The prosecutor declared that he received the donations during a family event. Octavian Iachimovschi had revenues worth 16,500 euros during 2019 after selling an apartment. For his activity in the Anticorruption Prosecution Office, he received a monthly salary of over 1,000 euros.

The Head of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS) Didn’t Submit the Declaration of Assets 

As of December, the interim head of the PCCOCS is Ion Caracuian. We did not find his declaration of assets on the official website of the National Integrity Authority. When contacted, Ion Caracuian said that he did not yet complete this declaration, as he worked simultaneously, through cumulation, in more places and he did not yet manage to collect all the information and documents for the declaration, provided that a series of institutions are not working during this time. 

The PCCOCS head says that the period allowed for submitting the acts was prolonged due to the emergency state. The representative of the National Integrity Authority, Victor Molosag, denies this information and underlines that the deadline for submitting these declarations was March 31, 2020. 

According to his 2018 declaration, the Caracuian family has a house, an apartment, two real estate properties, two agricultural lands and land in an urban area – all obtained based on donations or inheritance. In 2000, the municipality of Sângera provided Ion Caracuian with a land for constructions. 

The Caracuian family drives a Nissan made in 2002, for which the prosecutor claims to have paid 500 euros in 2012. 

Similarly to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, there are five deputy heads of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS)

Aurel Ciocan, one of the head deputies of the PCCOCS received in 2019 a donation of 28,000 euros at a wedding. He also obtained around 5,000 euros from selling a Skoda Octavia made in 2006. The prosecutor had an average monthly salary of around 1,000 euros during the last year. 

Another interim deputy head of the PCCOCS, Roman Dorogan, received a donation of over 1,500 euros from his parents. He also earned a monthly salary of 900 euros at the PCCOCS. 

The deputy head Taras Patraman sold a Volkswagen Golf from 2009 for 500 euros, the same price he bought it in 2017. Patraman, who received a salary of over 1,500 euros took a credit of over 5,000 euros in 2019, with a seven percent interest rate. He has to return the credit by 2022. 

Oleg Baciu, another deputy head of the PCCOCS, became in 2019 the owner of a Skoda Superb made in 2019. The prosecutor says he owns the car based on a series of „translative possession and use contracts” and that the car is worth 37,650 euros.

Based on similar acts, the prosecutor has, as of 2016, a Hyundai, made also in 2016. The prosecutor, with a monthly salary of over 1,500 euros, has, since 2018, a debt worth over 31,000 euros to Moldinconbank. The credit is due in 2028, and has a five percent interest rate. Oleg Baciu also has 35,000 euros debts to two persons. He has to repay the debts by 2023 and 2025. 

The declaration of Lucretia Zaharia, deputy head of PCCOCS remains unchanged since 2017. The sole income declared for 2019 is the salary, worth over 18,000 euros, around 1,500 euros monthly.  

The PCCOCS prosecutors also received donations in 2019. Petrusca Sergiu received a 2,000 euros donation from Elena Petrusca, and the prosecutor Mariana Cazacu declared an 11,000 euros donation received during a family event. The family of the prosecutor Cazacu sold last year a flat worth 10,620 euros and made purchases for almost 52,000 euros, buying a 73 square meters apartment and a Lexus CT 200H made in 2013. The prosecutor Denis Rotaru received over 5,000 euros during a family event. 

The Income Declared by the Heads of the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office 

Oleg Afanasii, head prosecutor of the Control of Special Activity and Investigations and Ensuring the Secrecy Regime of the General Prosecution, has been the interim head of the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office after Ștefan Saptefrati resigned, one week after Ziarul de Garda published an investigation about his son’s unpaid debts to several people and companies. 

Oleg Afanasii did not report any purchases in the past five years. He declared a monthly salary of over 1,500 euros for 2019. The new interim head of the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office owns a 133 square meters house, a garage and another real estate asset, an urban land and two agricultural lands. All these goods, the prosecutor states he beholds based on donation contracts. As of 2014, Oleg Afanasii drives a Mercedes 320 CDI from 2006, which he bought for over 10,000 euros. 

The salary of over 1,000 euros was the only income source in the previous year of the interim deputy head of the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office, Mihai Pascal, appointed, as Oleg Afanasii, one month ago. 

Another deputy head, Dumitru Robu, former interim general prosecutor, declared for the period July-December incomes received solely from his salary. His monthly salary at the General Prosecutor’s Office constituted over 1,000 euros.  

The third deputy head of the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office, Adrian Popenco, sold a Mercedes E250 CDI made in 2015 for around 26,000 euros. Last year, Popenco declared that he owns the car since 2018 and that it is worth over 17,000 euros. The prosecutor had a monthly salary of around 900 euros.  

Eduard Masnic, the head of the Buiucani Office and the deputy of the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office, had incomes from his salary of over 13,000 euros. His wife, employed at the „ExFactor-Grup” company had a salary of over 12,000 euros in 2019.

Roman Eremciuc, another deputy head of the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office, the head of the Centre Office received, from his salary around 13,000 euros. Last year, similarly to the years before that, he received donations from his family. In 2019, for example, the prosecutor reported incomes of over 3,500 euros received during a family event. Another 1,000 euros Eremciuc received from selling a real estate asset. 

Marcel Cimbir, the head of the Botanica Office of the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office, received around 13,000 euros from his salary in 2019. 

Igor Popa, head of the Ciocana Office of the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office as of 2019, is the former deputy of the ex-General Prosecutor of Moldova, Eduard Harujen and of the former interim General Prosecutor of Moldova, Dumitru Robu. Igor Popa indicates in his declaration of assets a salary of around 22,000 euros or around 1,700 euros per month. 

As of 2019, Corneliu Bratunov, the deputy head of the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office and the head of the Riscani Office, drives a Volvo XC 90 made in 2014, but he says he does not own the car. In December however, he sold for around 6,000 euros a Hyundai, made in 2011, which he mentioned in his 2018 declaration that it is worth 500 euros. 

Corneliu Bratunov says that last year he lent his father 6,000 euros, without interest rate and that he received donations worth 250 euros from Igor Grigoriev, his wife’s brother. The Bratunov family, however, needs to return the latter a debt of 5,000 euros. The head of the Ciocana Prosecution Office had in 2019 a salary of over 13,000 euros.