President Nicusor Dan announced, on Wednesday evening, that he signed the decrees appointing the heads of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice (PICCJ), the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT).
Thus, Nicusor Dan signed the following appointment decrees:
- Cristina CHIRIAC – the position of general prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice;
- Marius VOINEAG – the position of deputy prosecutor of the general prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice;
- Ioan-Viorel CERBU – the position of chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate;
- Marinela MINCĂ – the position of Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate;
- Marius-Ionel ȘTEFAN – the position of Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate;
- Codrin-Horațiu MIRON – the position of chief prosecutor of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism;
- Alex-Florin FLORENTA – the position of deputy chief prosecutor of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism;
The head of state specified that he rejected the signing of the decree for the appointment of Gill-Julien Grigore-Iacobici, deputy at DIICOT.
“After this moment, the expectation I have from the public prosecutor's offices and their heads is a revitalization of the activities of the public prosecutor's offices, to meet the expectations of Romanians. Romanians see corruption. (…) From DIICOT, I want the destruction of the large drug networks and the large tax evasion networks. Drugs are an extremely harmful social phenomenon, which affects more and more Romanians. Tax evasion affects the state budget,” the president said in a conference of the press at the Cotroceni Palace.
“I expect the three chief prosecutors appointed today to communicate with the subordinate prosecutors and to communicate in the public space all the deficiencies encountered by the prosecutors in their activity. I have a message for the body of prosecutors, because being a prosecutor is a vocation job. You become a prosecutor because you want to eliminate criminality, which affects the lives of your peers. Our judicial system has turned prosecutors into a kind of officials, who are weighed down by thousands of files and who no longer have the necessary time to look at the files that are really impactful for society”, stated Nicușor Dan.
Cristina Chiriac
Cristina Chiriac led the DNA Iași since 2022, where, in the last year, the 8 prosecutors drew up 3 indictments and 8 plea agreements. She advanced quickly, in 2015, to DIICOT and then DNA, after five years of activity at the prosecutor's offices attached to the courts of Bârlad and Vaslui. At the same time, she was accused of keeping in her drawer the recordings that captured the sexual abuse of the former bishop of Huși.
Cristina Chiriac was appointed prosecutor by President Traian Băsescu in 2012, starting at the Prosecutor's Office next to Bârlad Court.
After three years of activity at the local prosecutor's offices in Bârlad and Vaslui, in 2015, she jumped directly to DIICOT, the territorial structure in Vaslui.
In the professional hierarchy, the next prosecutor's office in rank is the one next to the Court. Cristina Chiriac has never worked at a prosecutor's office next to the court.
After arriving at DIICOT, in the same year 2015, Cristina Chiriac was delegated to DNA, the Iasi territorial service.
Cristina Chiriac was accused that in 2017, when she orchestrated a blackmail case, in which the victim was the former bishop of Huși, Cornel Onilă, she did not hand over the video evidence that caught the bishop having sexual relations with students from the seminary, and did not refer the case to the prosecutor's office, which had jurisdiction over sexual abuse.
The investigation that led to the conviction of Onilă was reopened after three years, following a press investigation documented by the journalists of the independent platform Să fie lăgără.
A complaint was filed against Cristina Chiriac by a former judicial police officer from DNA Iași, who accused her of failing to report and favoring the criminal, but without any result.
Marius Voineag
Marius Voineag was, for the last three years, the chief prosecutor of the DNA.
Voineag began his mandate at the DNA by telling subordinate prosecutors that he wants to transform the institution into a DNA 2.0, which fights against grand corruption, as prosecutor Laura Deriuș revealed in an interview for HotNews, in which she spoke about the pressure on anti-corruption prosecutors who handled sensitive cases with influential suspects.
He was accused even from within that he wanted to control the investigations of subordinate prosecutors, issuing an order shortly after taking office that required them to communicate to him the technical surveillance measures from all files, including the ordinances – practically the zero moment of the investigations – as another prosecutor revealed to HotNews. The order was communicated to prosecutors from all territorial structures, not just from the central one.
Voineag claimed that he acted legally, giving the example of Laura Codruța Koveși, who would have given a similar order during her mandate at DNA. The address signed by Kovesi was addressed only to the sections of the central structure and aimed to communicate only the administrative forwarding address, not the ordinances, as a DNA statement to HotNews showed.
Ioan-Viorel Cerbu
Ioan Viorel Cerbu has worked in DNA since 2004 and has held various management positions at the department level.
In 2013, prosecutor Cerbu left DNA for DIICOT. Later, in 2019, he was appointed general prosecutor at the Prosecutor's Office of the Bucharest Court of Appeal.
In 2023, after Marius Voineag became the head of the DNA, Ioan Viorel Cerbu became his adviser, later being appointed the head of the Technical Service of the DNA, and then he was appointed the deputy chief prosecutor.
In a recent interview given to journalist Sorina Matei, Marius Voineag had only words of praise for prosecutor Cerbu, indicating him as one of the most experienced DNA prosecutors.
Ioan Viorel Cerbu was the prosecutor who coordinated the last investigation in the Port of Constanța file.
Prosecutor Cerbu has an apartment in Bucharest and three cars, according to the latest wealth declaration. In 2024, he reported debts in the total amount of 50,000 lei and 27,622 euros, and in savings accounts: 30,905 lei. In 2023, Ioan Viorel Cerbu collected outstanding salaries and rights totaling 382,843 lei.
Alex Florence
Starting from 2023, Alex Florin Florența was the general prosecutor of Romania
Alex Florenta was considered a discreet general prosecutor, former judge Cristi Danileț stating that “he was not a strong enough voice” for the Public Ministry.
“Florence is a prosecutor who was not known before he started his mandate and will not be spoken of after the end of his mandate,” Dănileț told G4Media.
However, there was an episode in which the Prosecutor General Florence had a strong voice, but was quickly put to rest by the CSM. It happened last year, on the occasion of the DIICOT balance sheet, when he criticized what was happening with certain files in court.
Florence stated then that “we are witnessing court decisions ranging from surprising to apoplexy and a shocking reconfiguration of judicial practice”.
The Section for Judges of the SCM reacted quickly, saying that these represent “an inadmissible attack on the independence of judges entrusted with solving criminal cases” and established that he violated the independence of magistrates through public statements.
The mandate of Alex Florenta was marked by the lack of investigations into the acts of corruption in the judiciary. The transfer of jurisdiction to investigate crimes committed by magistrates to the General Prosecutor's Office was followed by the collapse of some results.
“It cannot be believed that corruption has disappeared”, remarked the members of the Section for Prosecutors of the CSM during the interviews of the prosecutors who are candidates for the leadership of the large prosecutor's offices, being asked if they support the return to the DNA of the jurisdiction over the cases of crimes committed by magistrates.
Under the mandate of Alex Florenta, only two magistrates were sent to court for acts of corruption, while during the period when the competence belonged to the DNA, approximately 160 magistrates were sent to court.
Marinela Minca
From January 2024, Marinela Mincă was chief prosecutor of the Criminal Judicial Section within the National Anti-Corruption Directorate.
Marius-Ionel Stefan
Marius-Ionel Ștefan was the chief prosecutor of DNA Pitesti since April 2022.
Codrin-Horațiu Miron
Codrin-Horațiu Miron was, until now, the head of the Timișoara structure of DIICOT.
Prosecutor Miron has 29 years of experience in the system. He started his career at the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Arad Court, and over the years he managed structures of DIICOT Arad and Timișoara.
Prosecutor Miron owns two apartments in Arad and two cars, bought in 2022 and 2024. In the last wealth declaration, he reported savings totaling 29,000 lei and 237,697 lei in investment funds, and in the debt section 70,000 euros and 49,000 lei.
In 2023, Codrin Horațiu Miron earned 350,000 from salaries and 9,000 lei from the teaching activity provided at the National Institute of Magistracy, respectively Babeș Bolyai University, where the head of DIICOT Timișoara obtained his doctorate in 2020.
Gill-Julien Grigore-Iacobici, rejected by Nicușor Dan
Gill Julien Grigore-Iacobici, prosecutor in the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Constanța Court of Appeal, was one of the two proposals of the Minister of Justice for the position of chief deputy prosecutor at DIICOT. In three asset declarations he wrote that he received donations from his in-laws – for example, in 2024, he received a donation of 420,000 lei, the equivalent of 84,000 euros. His mother-in-law is one of the richest mayors in the country.
In the appointment proposal, Minister Radu Marinescu indicated, in the case of Gill Julien Grigore-Iacobici, that he has “vast professional training and a great deal of experience, both in executive positions and in management positions”.
However, Gill Julien Grigore-Iacobici's family ties have attracted attention.
His mother-in-law, Gabriela Iacobici, is one of the longest-serving PSD mayors in Constanța county, leading Grădina commune since 2008. Gabriela Iacobici is also one of the richest mayors in Romania. Snoop revealed that she owns over 3,000 hectares of farmland in Constanța County.
Prosecutor Grigore-Iacobici's wife, Sonia, and his father-in-law, Ioan Iacobici, were definitively convicted in 2015 for fraud with European funds.
The two were accused by the DNA of using or presenting false, inaccurate or incomplete statements which results in the unjustified obtaining of funds from the general budget of the European Communities or from the budgets administered by them or on their behalf and forgery in documents under private signature.
The damage caused to the Ministry of Agriculture was assessed at 2 million lei.
After the case was moved from Constanța to Galați, Ion Iacobici and his daughter each received three years of suspended prison terms.
