Андриан Мунтяну
Prior to that, he served as deputy director and acting head of the institution.
It should be recalled that at the end of 2022, Daniel-Marius Staicu was appointed to this position by the government of Natalia Gavrilica for a period of 5 years. Shortly before that, in November of the same year, he obtained Moldovan citizenship by a decree signed by Maia Sandu.
Between 2017 and 2020. Staicu held a similar position in Romania – Chairman of the National Office for the Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering. In 2018, the Romanian government’s Control Corps contacted the prosecutor’s office about irregularities found in the Directorate. As Romanian agency Mediafax wrote, it was about “the disclosure, without legal grounds, of evidence or official documents from a criminal case before the decision to dismiss the case was made.”
Staicu’s mandate in Moldova was due to end at the end of 2027, but he resigned on December 16, 2024. According to publicly available information, Daniel-Marius Staicu is now the anti-money laundering director at CEC Bank SA.
The new director of Moldova’s anti-money laundering prevention and combating service, Andrian Munteanu, has been working in this field since 2007. As it was mentioned at the government meeting, he has extensive experience and plays a key role in strengthening the national system in this field.
We shall remind you that on November 28, 2024, the Parliament adopted a law on the amendment of some normative acts, aimed at implementing the standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The Law provides for the adaptation of national legislation to international standards. Among other things, the document introduces the obligation to disclose information on ultimate beneficiaries, the creation of a Register of fiduciary structures under the management of the State Tax Service, as well as penalties for failure to provide or distortion of data on beneficiaries. The law aims to accelerate Moldova’s accession to the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).
