The Justice Minister, Monica Macovei, recommended Laura Codruta Kovesi for the Prosecutor General seat on Monday. According to a press release issued by The Anti Terrorism and Organized Crime Department (DIICOT), Laura Codruta Kovesi is 33 years old and directed, since January 2006, the Sibiu county division of the Department.

The suggestion was already passed to vote to the Justice Superior Council. “During her professional career up to this moment, Mrs. Kovesi activated in several forms of prosecution, fact that allowed her to have a full image on the general institutional, financial an personnel problems”, the release reads.

Laura Codruta Kovesi begun her work in 1995, in the Prosecution Office near the Sibiu Judges’ Court, promoted in 1999 to the Sibiu Court Assembly.

Between 2000 and January 2006, she was chief-prosecutor in Sibiu.

Former Prosecutor General, Ilie Botos resigned after Omar Hayssam, who’s alleged involvement in terrorist acts was being judged, disappeared.