| Augustin Lazăr | |
| Office: | Prosecutor General of Romania |
| President: | Klaus Iohannis |
| Term Start: | 28 April 2016 |
| Term End: | 27 April 2019 |
| Predecessor: | Tiberiu Nițu |
| Birth Date: | 25 October 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Rădești, Alba County, Romania |
| Education: | Babeș-Bolyai University |
Augustin Lazăr (born October 25, 1956, Rădesti, Alba County, Romania) is a university professor and author of legal publications, career magistrate.[1] Lazăr served as the Prosecutor General of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania from April 28, 2016, until 27 April, 2019.[2]
In 1981, Augustin Lazăr graduated from the Faculty of Law of Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca and then he attended educational courses in the EU and in the United States. In 2003, he obtained a Doctor of Law degree from the same university in the field of investigation of business related offenses.[3]
After graduation, he served as a lawyer of the Bar in Alba County (1981 - February 1982). From 1 March 1982 until December 1997, he successively occupied the following positions: trainee prosecutor, prosecutor at Alba Iulia Prosecutor's Office and the Prosecutor's Office attached to Alba Iulia Tribunal. During the interval January 1998 and August 1998, he served as a Chief Prosecutor at the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Alba Iulia Court of Appeal. In September 1998, he was appointed Chief Prosecutor of the Anticorruption, Criminal Investigation and Forensic Section of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, and he kept this capacity until 28 February 2001. From 1 March 2001 and 31 December 2012, Augustin Lazăr served as Deputy Prosecutor General of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Alba Iulia Court of Appeal, and from 1 January 2013 until 27 April 2016, he was General Prosecutor of the same Prosecutor's Office. From 28 April 2016 until 27 April 2019, Lazăr served as the Prosecutor General of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice.[3]
Since 1993, Augustin Lazăr is a lecturer and associate professor at "1st December 1918" University of Alba Iulia. Since 2009, he is also a professor of criminal sciences at the same institution.
Augustin Lazăr is a member of the Romanian Society of Criminology and Criminalistics, a member of the International Association of Prosecutors, and a member of the Association "Amici dell'Accademia di Romania" in Rome.
Lazăr is married with two children.