diff --git a/src/plugins/intel_cpu/src/graph_optimizer.cpp b/src/plugins/intel_cpu/src/graph_optimizer.cpp
index be94a8b433c46e..9e966e8ae04920 100644
--- a/src/plugins/intel_cpu/src/graph_optimizer.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/intel_cpu/src/graph_optimizer.cpp
@@ -2611,24 +2611,7 @@ void GraphOptimizer::MergeReorderAndTranspose(Graph &graph) {
                 && !node->isDynamicNode();
     };
 
-    auto checkReshapeShapes = [](const Shape& biggerShape, const Shape& smallerShape) {
-        if (biggerShape.getRank() - smallerShape.getRank() > 1)
-            return false;
-
-        const auto biggerPShape = biggerShape.toPartialShape();
-        const auto smallerPShape = smallerShape.toPartialShape();
-        size_t mismatchCount = 0;
-        for (size_t i = 0; i < smallerPShape.size(); ++i) {
-            if (smallerPShape[i] != biggerPShape[i + mismatchCount]) {
-                mismatchCount++;
-                if (mismatchCount > 1)
-                    return false;
-            }
-        }
-        return true;
-    };
-
-    auto isSuitableReshape = [&checkReshapeShapes](NodePtr node) {
+    auto isSuitableReshape = [](NodePtr node) {
         if (node->getChildEdges().size() != 1)
             return false;
         // Reshape supported only in one case: if two consecutive input dims are merged into 1