Investigations
Bailiff’s Former Brother-in-Law Gets Fifty Percent Discount on Seized Apartment
A family from Chișinău municipality’s Băcioi commune has lost their apartment after their son acted as a guarantor for a 1,515 euros (30,000 lei) loan made out to a man he barely knew. Because he failed to unde…
18 August 2019
The Constitutional Court Has Seven New Independent Candidates
The Government, the Parliament and the Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM) selected seven candidates to fill the six vacancies of judges of the Constitutional Court (CC). Three of them, Serghei Țurcan, Nicola…
18 August 2019
Moldova, Explained by ZdG. August 12, 2019.
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: Our feature story breaks down the latest in resignations and paid vacations from Moldova’s Prosecutor General’s Office – where tho…
12 August 2019
Moldova, Explained by ZdG. August 5, 2019.
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: Our feature story takes us to Constituency 18, Orhei, where locals are coming to terms with the fact that their parliamentary depu…
05 August 2019
Moldova, Explained by ZdG. July 29, 2019.
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău! Here’s what’s happening this week: it’s our anniversary so we’re celebrating with a special e-paper edition of ZdG! We’ll also be introducing the team me…
29 July 2019
Justice in the Post-Kroll Era. Case Study: Vlad Plahotniuc and Ilan Shor
Law enforcement authorities have placed sequesters on the assets of Finpar Invest, a company controlled by oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc. This took place a year and a half after they got hold of the documents in…
28 July 2019
April 7, Heroin, a Millionaire Archbishop and More: ZdG’s Top Stories in 15 Years
For the past fifteen years Ziarul de Gardă has been investigating corruption and breaking Moldova’s biggest stories. To celebrate our fifteenth anniversary, we bring you the best of the best in ZdG’ s inv…
28 July 2019
PHOTO/“Millionaires” on Paper, Indebted in Real Life
Angela Sanduta is from Ialoveni but she lives and works in Chişinău. She has no property or cars registered in her name, no business of her own and has never lived in luxury. Then one day she found out she had…
21 July 2019
PHOTO/Chisinau’s Pedestrian Street Is Deteriorating
Five years ago, Chişinău inaugurated a newly renovated pedestrian street. At the time, then Mayor of Chişinău Dorin Chirtoaca promised that the road was made to last “tens and hundreds of years.” But five years…
21 July 2019
Arena Chișinău Project – Financial Irregularities
Prime Minister Maia Sandu maintains that so far no documents have been identified that would justify the €43 million cost of the “Arena Chisinau” project, started by the former Democratic Party gove…
14 July 2019
Măriuța Nistor
“Team Europe” in PAS with people who have flirted with Shor and Plahotniuc
19 October 2023
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