The head of the Bucharest Military Prosecutor's Office, sanctioned with a reduction in salary. The decision of the High Court is final

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ÎCCJ) rejected as unfounded the appeal of Bogdan Pârlog, the first prosecutor of the Bucharest Military Prosecutor's Office, and upheld the decision taken in June 2025 by the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) to sanction him with a 10% reduction in salary for a period of three months, because he did not comply with an order issued by the superior hierarchical prosecutor.

Monday's decision of the ÎCCJ against Bogdan Pârlog, the Romanian prosecutor with the most disciplinary sanctions, is final.

“The disciplinary violations apprehended concerned the fact that the prosecutor issued an order by which he decided not to respect the order issued by the superior hierarchical prosecutor, respectively by the General Prosecutor of the Military Prosecutor's Office attached to the Court of Appeal, thus violating the legal provisions in administrative matters, the principle of the hierarchical organization of the prosecutor's offices and the enforceability of an administrative act in force”, the High Court declared in the press release on Monday.

The supreme court specified that “the respective provisions did not concern the method of solving some cases”.

“Through the definitive disciplinary sanction applied, the High Court clearly demarcates the professional autonomy of magistrates and the obligation to comply with legal administrative provisions, reaffirming the principle of legality and respect for professional status,” the statement added.

What Bogdan Pârlog said about that order

In June, after being sanctioned by the Section for Prosecutors of the CSM through a decision adopted with a majority of 3-2, Bogdan Pârlog commented on the decision for HotNews and accused the three prosecutors who voted in favor of sanctioning that they wanted to pay him “some policies”.

“It's about an order with nine points that were totally against the law, it had no business (…). That order was unenforceable, but the problem is that no one checked if any of the nine points were violated,” he declared.

Also then he stated that he intends to challenge the decision in court.

“I don't see how these decisions could remain definitive. The idea is that they are desperate to decapitate the Military Prosecutor's Office. As you can see, we are working, we are unpredictable from this point of view,” the official added.

Record number of disciplinary actions

Pârlog, who was part of the first group of magistrates who spoke with President Nicușor Dan at the December meeting, was disciplinary investigated several times by the Judicial Inspection and sanctioned by the CSM for public statements considered to harm the prestige of the judiciary.

He told HotNews.ro that he is the prosecutor in Europe with the most disciplinary actions initiated against him, surpassing the Polish prosecutor who held the European record with 14 disciplinary actions.

The Judicial Inspection launched 20 disciplinary actions against him in recent years. Two of them were merged, leaving 19.

Bogdan Pârlog, president of the “Initiative for Justice” Association, is one of the most critical magistrates towards the CSM and the Judicial Inspection, which he described as an “instrument of repression against inconvenient magistrates”.

The current first prosecutor of the Bucharest Military Prosecutor's Office is the prosecutor who opened the case against the gendarmes for the violence at the rally on August 10, 2018, he being the one who self-reported in the case of the violent intervention of the law enforcement against the demonstrators in Piața Victoriei.