This was reported by PRESShub.
The DRRM is organized and operates as a legal entity within the government’s administrative apparatus and under the coordination of the Prime Minister; it is funded from the state budget through the budget of the General Secretariat of the Government.
Currently, the department is headed by Constantin-Valentin Reducanu, Director General and Acting State Secretary.
In recent years, the Department for Relations with the Republic of Moldova has repeatedly been the subject of journalistic investigations.
For example, in November 2023, the DRRM, headed at the time by Liberal Adrian Dupu, paid 48,000 euros for five unwatched video reports created on a website owned by a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The news agency Rnews SRL, which publishes the online publication PS News, received a contract in 2023 worth 240,000 Romanian lei (more than 900,000 Moldovan lei) from the Department for Relations with the Republic of Moldova. With this funding, PS News published five video reports—which had no impact on the public and were pro-unionist in nature—produced in collaboration with one of Chisinau’s television channels.
Adrian Dupu was dismissed from his position as State Secretary of the Department for Relations with the Republic of Moldova in February 2025 by a decision of Prime Minister Marcel Ciołacu. The decision was made following a scandal in the press in which he was accused of demanding 150 euros from each member of the diaspora.
It appears that another corruption scandal is brewing within the department.
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