The Disciplinary and Ethics Board of the Superior Council of Prosecutors (SCP) is convened to adopt and pronounce judgments regarding several prosecutors with professional integrity issues. Some of them were documented by the Center for Investigative Journalism reporters, and CJIM's investigations were the basis for the initiation of criminal proceedings against them. Moreover, according to the information on the vreauinfo.md ​​portal , they were suspended from their duties or had to leave the system due to suspicions hanging over their activities.

The Disciplinary Board will examine the disciplinary procedure regarding the prosecutor in the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, Mirandolina Sușițcaia, the ex-prosecutor, Deputy General Prosecutor, Ruslan Popov, the ex-prosecutor, Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Chisinau Municipal Prosecutor's Office, head of the Ciocana Office, Igor Popa, the prosecutor in the Prosecutor General's Office, Vladislav Căruceru, the prosecutor in the Chisinau Municipal Prosecutor's Office (suspended from the office), Iulia Popov, the prosecutor in the Prosecutor's Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (suspended from the office), Dumitru Raileanu, the chief prosecutor of the Hâncești District Prosecutor's Office ( suspended from the office), Maxim Gropa, the chief prosecutor of the Glodeni District Prosecutor's Office, Sergiu Mititelu, and the prosecutor of the ATU Gagauzia Prosecutor's Office, Nicolae Tian.

The Center for Investigative Journalim (CIJM) published last year an investigation into how prosecutor Mirandolina Suşiţcaia buried the Laundromat file. In the investigation, it was also shown, with evidentiary documents, that the prosecutor avoided making information about the Laundromat available to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry regarding the Russian laundry and that she did it with the support of Prosecutor General, Alexandr Stoianoglo.

The prosecutor “at loggerheads” with the law, Igor Popa, detained on November 9, 2021, was and is under the scrutiny of CIJM reporters. The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office opened against him a criminal case for illicit enrichment, based on a journalistic investigation carried out by the reporters of the Center for Investigative Journalism.

Igor Popa was the subject of several analytical investigations made by the CIJM. During the communist rule, he was accused of fabricating files and ordering the trial of young protesters in police stations.

When power was taken over by the PDM and its president, the oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, prosecutor Igor Popa was promoted to the position of Deputy General Prosecutor.

Prosecutor Ruslan Popov, who held the position of Deputy General Prosecutor, was also the hero of the CIJM's journalistic investigations. He was dismissed from his position and from the system as well.

Popov was detained by anti-corruption prosecutors and Intelligence and Security Service officers in October 2021, being suspected of illicit enrichment. 

According to the data on the vreauinfo.md ​​portal , Ruslan Popov is one of the 24 prosecutors who took the compulsory-voluntary decision to leave the system in the first half of 2022. Popov is being investigated in an illicit enrichment case, which followed the revelations made by the reporters of the Center for Journalistic Investigations from Moldova. The elimination of Popov from the system was done with the consent of the Superior Council of Prosecutors (CSP), which took note of the decision of the interim Prosecutor General, Dumitru Robu since Ruslan Popov had not accepted any of the proposed positions.

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