Victoria Furtuna graduated in Law in 2003 from the Free International University of Moldova, according to her biography published on her platform. She began her career as a prosecutor at the Nisporeni District Prosecutor’s Office. In 2006, she was transferred to the Chisinau Municipal Prosecutor’s Office, in the Botanica sector, and in 2016, shortly after Viorel Morari became head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA), she was appointed prosecutor within the PA.

From 2014 to 2023, Furtuna declared substantial donations and gifts from family members totaling nearly 150,000 euros.

In October 2021, following the detention and suspension of Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo, Victoria Furtuna and Dumitru Robu were nominated by the Superior Council of Prosecutors to serve as acting Prosecutor General. After the selection process, the position went to Dumitru Robu.

After 18 years in the Prosecutor’s Office, in March 2024, Furtuna resigned in scandal from her position as an anticorruption prosecutor. She accused the Intelligence and Security Service (SIS) of sending a negative report about her activity to the General Prosecutor’s Office, labeling her a threat to the Republic of Moldova and some of her actions a danger to national security.

As a result, the Prosecutor’s Office revoked her right to access first-degree state secret information. This reportedly happened after, in January, Furtuna had opened a case regarding abuses by the SIS and the National Anticorruption Center (CNA). According to her, the two institutions fabricated and disseminated false information against judges disloyal to the ruling administration in order to take over the judiciary.

The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office confirmed initiation of a case based on the complaint of a single judge, specifying that it is investigating whether public officials from the CNA included false data about the magistrate in official documents that were sent to the country’s president for evaluating his candidacy. In addition, the PA mentioned that Victoria Furtuna’s right to access state secrets actually expired in 2022, when she was denied access for the first time, and again in 2024. The SIS stated, in a response to Anticoruptie.md, that the information in the report, which formed the basis for the denial of access to state secrets, “is relevant and verified.”

The day after her resignation, the General Prosecutor’s Office conducted searches in the office of the former prosecutor. This came after the publication, on a Telegram channel, of the order to initiate criminal proceedings in the judge’s case and the opening of a separate case on information leaks. Furtuna denied any involvement in leaking data from the case.

Shortly after her resignation, in April 2024, Furtuna announced the creation of the public association Vox Populi, Vox Dei, with the mission of monitoring and exposing major corruption cases. She founded the association together with Valeri Oskin and Adrian Gavrilov.

On July 30, 2024, in Tiraspol, in the separatist region, she announced her independent candidacy for the presidency, making predictions about Moldova’s involvement in the war by the current administration. “I have learned that Maia Sandu’s second presidential term will begin with a war. The second front in Transnistria.”

She made contradictory statements regarding the security of the Republic of Moldova. On the one hand, she is convinced that the country’s defense is currently led by NATO generals, and its politics by American advisers. “All to continue the slaughter in the heart of Europe”. On the other hand, she claims that the presence of Russian military troops in the Transnistrian region is not illegal and maintains peace in the region. “We do not have foreign soldiers there. Republic of Moldova is an independent country as long as it does not belong to a military bloc”.

She promotes the rhetoric that Moldova must have good relations with all countries, including the Russian Federation. But as president, she said she would not allow other states to govern Moldova.

Victoria Furtuna was openly supported in her presidential campaign by Marchel, the bishop of Balti and Falesti, who gave an online speech at a conference in Russia entitled “In Moldova or in Romania: will Moldova remain on the map in 2025?”, about the need to expand Russian influence in Moldova.

At a press conference, Furtuna declared her support for the Orthodox Church, quoted Bible verses, and promised to ban LGBT propaganda in Moldova, following Georgia’s example.

In the 2024 presidential elections, she obtained only 4.45% of the votes. In March 2025, she was elected leader of the Moldova Mare (Greater Moldova) party, a political formation registered in 2007, initially called the political movement For Nation and Country.

As party leader, Furtuna advanced territorial claims against neighboring states, demanding the return of the Southern Bugeac region from Ukraine to the Republic of Moldova, arguing that there is no international treaty ratified by Moldova that recognizes the loss of Bugeac.

At the same time, she joined other pro-Russian politicians in expressing discontent over the distribution in schools of the film "Siberia in Our Bones", about Soviet deportations from the Republic of Moldova between 1941–1949. Furtuna also filed a complaint with the Ministry of Education and Research, claiming that the documentary contained scenes of violence, an explicit political ideology, and was therefore unfit to be shown to students.

She demanded the opening of a criminal case against President Maia Sandu for supporting Nicusor Dan in the Romanian presidential elections. Furtună described this support as an act of election interference, external pressure, and political aggression directed against Romania’s security and independence.

In July 2025, Victoria Furtuna was sanctioned by the European Union alongside other leaders and members of parties associated with Ilan Shor for actions aimed at destabilizing the Republic of Moldova. The State Tax Service froze her bank accounts. Furtuna claimed she was falsely accused of involvement in vote-buying schemes, that the sanctions had been adopted without a court conviction, and that she would challenge them at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

On August 23, 2025, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) rejected the registration request of Moldova Mare party’s candidate list for the parliamentary elections of 28 September 2025, citing non-compliance with gender requirements after the exclusion of a candidate with unresolved criminal records.

The party’s complaint reached the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), which initially ruled that the CEC’s refusal was legal, upholding the sanction for non-compliance with eligibility requirements. After a request for revision and the replacement of judge Ion Munteanu from the panel, on the grounds that while at the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office he had initiated a criminal case against Victoria Furtuna, the CSJ overturned the first decision and declared the CEC’s appeal inadmissible.

In the end, the CEC registered the list of 69 candidates under the condition that it could be revoked if the list did not meet legal requirements.