PCCOCS Chief Victor Furtuna passed the vetting
The Head of the Prosecutor's Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS), Victor Furtuna, and Mihail Ivanov, prosecutor at the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (PA), are financially and ethically sound.
The Superior Council of Prosecutors (SCP) approved on Tuesday, October 21, the reports of the Prosecutors Evaluation Commission, according to which Furtuna and Ivanov passed the vetting.
The External Prosecutors Evaluation Commission approved the reports in September and proposed to the SCP the promotion of the two prosecutors in the external verification process.
The procedure included the analysis of declarations of assets and personal interests for the last five years, ethics questionnaires and lists of close associates from the judiciary, prosecution and civil service.
The President of the CSP, Dumitru Obadă, congratulated the two prosecutors and wished them success in their work at the PCCOCS and, respectively, the PA.
We note that Victor Furtuna, with a 14-year career in the prosecution system, won the competition to occupy the position of Chief Prosecutor of the PCCOCS in November 2024, after holding the interim position of the same position since January 2023. He is the prosecutor who decided, in October 2021, to retain the then Prosecutor General, Alexandr Stoianoglo.
At the same time, Mihail Ivanov was employed at the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office in 2010, and between November 2022 and April 2023, he was the interim head of the PA. One of the high-profile cases handled by Ivanov is the one regarding the privatization of the State Enterprise "Air Moldova".
We recall that the external evaluation of prosecutors from the PCCOCS, as well as prosecutors with management positions at the Prosecutor General's Office, began on May 8, 2025. Of the 88 prosecutors who were notified of the initiation of the external evaluation procedure, 17 submitted resignation requests before submitting the requested documents to the Vetting Commission.
