Dorin Munteanu’s career as an investigative judge began ten years ago, at the Basarabeasca Court of Law. In 2015, the High Council of Magistrates (CSM) decided to give him a post at the Central Court in Chisinau.

In January 2017, CSM suspended Mr. Munteanu at a request from then Prosecutor-General Eduard Harunjen, facing criminal charges for issuing an illegal ruling. Mr. Munteanu contested his suspension from office but the Supreme Court of Justice offered its backing to CSM.

In November 2019 Dorin Munteanu was acquitted and rehabilitated over what was cited as “the lack of criminal deeds” and he sought to reinstate his position, at the Ciocana Court in the capital. Thus, on 10 December 2019 CSM called off the suspension but denied him the transfer to the Ciocana Court; instead Mr. Munteanu returned to his former job.

Mr. Munteanu is mentioned in the RISE Moldova investigation about the illegal tapping of opposition figures as one of the judges who had authorized the interceptions of opponents to the former regime of PDM’s ex-leader Vladimir Plahotniuc. It is also judge Munteanu who ordered the release of an Ukrainian national suspected of child trafficking from a Moldovan prison and his confinement in home custody. The case is described in a RISE Moldova investigation.