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02 August, 2025 / 10:39

/ 21 December, 2017

Newly appointed director of Intelligence Service - Vitalie Pîrlog

Agenția Informațională de Stat

Chisinau, 21 December /MOLDPRES/- Former Justice Minister Vitalie Pirlog was appointed today as director of the Intelligence and Security Service by a vote of 55 MPs.

Pirlog sworn in before the plenum and will hold the office for a period of five years. He was proposed for this post by 10 lawmakers of the parliamentary majority.

Pirlog’s candidacy was praised by Communist leader Vladimir Voronin and criticized by Liberal and Liberal Democrats.

In early December, Pirlog refused mandate of MP on the list of PCRM, after Oxana Domenti left the parliament.

Pirlog is a lawyer specialized in international law. During his career, he was a representative of the Moldovan government at the ECHR, member of the Steering Committee for Human Rights, member of the European Commission for Efficiency of Justice, head of the Moldovan delegation to the Council of Europe’s Committee on Criminal Matters. Since April 2017 he held the office of head of the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL's Files.

In 2006 he was appointed head of the Ministry of Justice, and on 14-25 September 2009 he served as acting prime minister of the country.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)

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