European Chief Prosecutor Laura Codruța Kovesi will pay an official visit to Moldova. According to the Delegation of the European Union to Moldova, the head of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office will be in Chișinău from 11 to 14 July.

In Chișinău, Laura Codruța Kovesi is expected to have several meetings with government representatives.

In January 2021, Moldovan President Maia Sandu met with the Chief Prosecutor of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, Laura Codruța Kovesi, in Brussels. Maia Sandu said at the time that she wanted to work with the European institution to boost reforms in the justice system in Moldova.

In a joint agreement on 16 October 2019, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union appointed Laura Codruța Kovesi as the first head of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. At the same time, the Council of the European Union, through a decision on 27 July 2020, appointed the first European Prosecutors of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office is an independent body of the Union charged with investigating, prosecuting and bringing to justice the perpetrators of criminal offences affecting the financial interests of the Union (e.g. fraud, corruption or cross-border VAT fraud exceeding €10 million). To this end, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office investigates, prosecutes and brings proceedings before the competent courts of the Member States.

Previously, Laura Codruța Kovesi served as Chief Prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) in Romania from 2013 until 9 July 2018. Prior to this, Kovesi was a prosecutor in Sibiu and the Prosecutor General of Romania. At the time of her appointment in 2006, Kovesi was the first woman and the youngest ever Prosecutor General in Romania’s history. She is also, after December 1989, the only prosecutor-general to have served her full term.