Anti-corruption prosecutor Octavian Iachimovschi has sent a request to the interim Prosecutor General Dumitru Robu asking for his withdrawal and the appointment of another head of the prosecution group in the “bank fraud” case. The information was confirmed to Ziarul de Gardă by the acting Prosecutor General.

Dumitru Robu said that the reason given by the prosecutor was that he was “unable to continue leading the prosecution group”. Reached by ZdG, the state prosecutor did not comment on the decision.

Octavian Iachimovschi became a prosecutor in the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office on 14 June 2011. Previously, he held the position of acting deputy of the PA.

Octavian Iachimovschi is the prosecutor who secured the conviction of Judge Gheorghe Popa, who was caught red-handed by National Anti-Corruption Centre (CNA) officers and prosecutors with $200 in autumn 2013.

In April 2022, Iachimovschi ran for head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office.

In June this year, in a response to a ZdG request for information, anti-corruption prosecutor Octavian Iachimovschi, who headed the prosecution group in the “bank fraud” case, told us that the indictment against Ilan Shor has been completed and he is charged on 9 counts in the case.

He also told us that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office requested the extradition of former PDM leader Vladimir Plahotniuc in June 2020, when the former democratic leader was located in the US, and in September 2020, when he was identified in Turkey, but no answers to these requests from both countries have reached the Chisinau authorities.