Veronica Dragalin

Veronica Dragalin is experienced in high-stakes litigation, cross-border anticorruption enforcement, and government investigations. She also has experience in civil and criminal matters.

Prior to rejoining Jones Day in 2025, Veronica was chief prosecutor of the Republic of Moldova's Anti-corruption Prosecution Office, where she led prosecutions against political figures, coordinated international investigations, and played a key role in legislative reforms. She also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California, where she prosecuted more than 300 criminal cases involving elected officials and multiple abuse of power and civil rights cases against federal and local law enforcement officers that included public corruption, foreign bribery, and money laundering. She represented the United States in 10 jury trials and briefed and argued before the Court of Appeals.

During her tenure as a prosecutor, Veronica negotiated DPAs (deferred prosecution agreements) and NPAs (non-prosecution agreements) with U.S. and foreign entities that resulted in multimillion dollar payments. She worked with U.S., European, and Asian enforcement authorities and with international financial organizations in evaluating Moldova's compliance with international anticorruption standards.

As chief prosecutor in Moldova, she supervised the investigation and prosecution of more than 700 high-level corruption cases and worked with international partners on major investigations. She led the investigation of an international corruption scheme that affected Interpol's Red Notice system, coordinated investigations into political corruption and illegal financing of Moldova's elections, a money laundering scheme through which more than $22 billion was laundered from Russian banks through the Moldovan justice and banking systems, and the Moldovan bank fraud scheme, where she supervised the investigation into the theft of $1 billion from the Moldovan private banking system.