The Superior Council of Prosecutors (CSP) rejected, during its meeting on 1 November, the candidacy of former acting Prosecutor General Dumitru Robu for the position of acting deputy head of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS). The request for expressing consent for the appointment of Dumitru Robu was submitted by acting Prosecutor General Ion Munteanu.

On 21 October, the CSP also rejected Dumitru Robu’s candidature. At that time Robu was proposed for the position of Deputy Acting Prosecutor General.

Until October 2022, Dumitru Robu served as interim Prosecutor General. After the expiry of the one-year mandate, Ion Munteanu was appointed as interim Prosecutor General by a decree of President Maia Sandu on 12 October 2022.

Dumitru Robu came to public attention in 2017, when he handled the “paid parking” case, in which the former mayor of Chisinau, Dorin Chirtoaca, is targeted.

In July 2019, Dumitru Robu was appointed interim Prosecutor General by decree of then President Igor Dodon.

In 2019, ZdG wrote that Robu is the godson-in-law of prosecutor Vera Chiranda, who in turn is a cousin of former Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Andrei Nastase.

Through the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Dumitru Robu admitted that his godmother is Vera Chiranda, a prosecutor in the Prosecutor’s Office of the Municipality of Chisinau. Chisinau. She was detained in October 2018 in the bribery case for five judges, being accused of intermediating the transfer of funds from interested persons to the magistrates concerned in the case.

The information that Andrei Nastase is allegedly in-law with Vera Chiranda was communicated to us by sources within the Prosecutor General’s Office. Contacted by phone on 30 July 2019, Nastase did not deny this relationship, stating that he had to document it in order to come up with a reaction. At the same time, however, Andrei Nastase said that he has no connection with the appointment of Dumitru Robu as acting Prosecutor General.

How the Parliament chose the candidate for the post of acting attorney general
Then-President Igor Dodon signed a decree on July 31, 2019 appointing Dumitru Robu as interim prosecutor general, after the Parliament voted a resolution to that effect on July 30, 2019. Dumitru Robu was put forward for the position of acting Prosecutor General by MPs Alexandru Slusari, Igor Grosu and Vlad Batrîncea, although eight other candidates submitted their files for the position.

Dumitru Robu became interim Prosecutor General after Parliament amended the Law on the Prosecutor’s Office, noting that the interim Prosecutor General is appointed by presidential decree on the proposal of the Superior Council of Prosecutors (CSP), and if the CSP does not submit a candidate, it is submitted by Parliament, as was the case with Robu.

Dumitru Robu has been deputy chief prosecutor of the Chisinau Municipal Prosecutor’s Office since February 2018. Previously, for almost two years, he was an anti-corruption prosecutor. Before joining the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, Dumitru Robu was a prosecutor in the Anti-Trafficking in Human Beings Section of the General Prosecutor’s Office and a state prosecutor in the Transport Prosecutor’s Office

In December 2017, on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Moldova, Dumitru Robu was decorated by former Prosecutor General Eduard Harunjen with the medal “For impeccable service” Class III.