His career began at a private company, as a legal consultant. Upon his graduation from the law department of Moldova’s ULIM Free International University, Vitalie Pirlog got hired as a senior consultant at the Document Service of the Presidential Administration.

Between 2001 and 2006 Mr. Pirlog acted as Moldovan Government’s representative at the European Court of Human Rights and head of the Ministry of Justice’s international affairs and European integration department. In September 2006 he was appointed the minister of justice and stayed in that post until September 2009, when the Communists lost power to the European Integration Alliance. For one day he acted as the interim prime minister following the resignation of Zinaida Greceanii.

Vitalie Pirlog returned to the private sector, working as a lawyer, and continued to claim public posts. In 2012, for instance, he applied to compete for the post of prosecutor-general, just to have his candidacy turned down in the Parliament. In November 2010 and November 2014 parliamentary elections his name appeared in the candidate list of the Communists Party, which didn’t capture enough votes to give Mr. Pirlog a seat.

In December 2017, his party fellow Oxana Domenti resigned from the Parliament and he was next in line to replace her, but ultimately he chose to accept his appointment as director of the Information and Security Service (SIS). He held this job for just two months, opting out in favor of chairmanship in the Interpol’s Files Control Commission in March 2017.

Pirlog completed his mandate at Interpol in 2022, and in 2024 he became involved in an international scandal. He is under investigation for, together with a lawyer and involving a company from the United Arab Emirates, submitting applications to Interpol with falsified information and documents, requesting the cancellation of Red Notices for their clients, arguing that they had asylum seeker status in the Republic of Moldova.

They, along with other public officials from Chișinău, were organizing this "asylum seeker status." Without the foreigners ever entering the territory of the Republic of Moldova — a mandatory condition — the lawyer was requesting asylum for them at the General Inspectorate for Migration. Thus, through forgery of official documents, Interpol received the information that the criminals had requested asylum in the Republic of Moldova, and as a result, the institution blocked the Red Notices.

In June 2025, the Ministry of Interior of the United Arab Emirates announced that Vitalie Pirlog was detained in Dubai after being included in INTERPOL’s Red Notices at the request of French authorities. He is accused of forgery, bribery, facilitating bribery, and fraud.

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