Investigations
The Dismissal of the Manole Case
The Chişinău District Court has acquitted ex-judge Domnica Manole in the so-called “referendum case.” In the examination of the criminal case, the prosecutor found no evidence of the ex-magistrate’s intention t…
14 July 2019
Disputed Privatizations and Concessions
Six months after signing a twenty-five-year public-private partnership contract for all bus stations in the Republic of Moldova, the private partner, Garile Auto Moderne LLC, changed owners. New associates repl…
07 July 2019
Kroll-2 Report: 77 Shor Group Companies Received $2.9 Billion In Loans
Moldova’s Parliamentary Investigation Commission has published the 154 page Kroll-2 Report on the country’s billion dollar bank fraud case. That being said, some details, such as the names of certain companies…
07 July 2019
STUDY/ How Moldovan authorities facilitated the money laundering of US$ 71 billion
During 2010-2014, US $ 71 billion was laundered by Russian banks through Moldovan courts and banks, using unlawful court decisions on false debts. The information was presented in the study “The Russian L…
24 June 2019
VIDEO / Under cover: “Food, and roubles, and ice cream, and pool.” How much does a day of sitting in tents in front of state institutions cost
From 500 to 1000 lei per day. This is the amount that people who stayed in tents in front of state institutions during the past days can get. To get more information about the purpose and the organization of th…
16 June 2019
April 7th, murder, rape – files of Nichifor
Adrian Nichifor, convicted by first court of killing Iurie Parlici, brother of former Nisporeni Commissioner, was in state of affect at the time of the crime. The conclusion comes from a psychologist and would…
28 July 2014
Heath worth 20 million euro from the downtown
State should decide as soon as possible what will do with the land of former Republican Stadium, estimated at around 20 million euros, say real estate experts. But authorities are in doubt and say they are stil…
24 July 2014
Strategic Factory worth millions taken over from the state for nothing
Cereal Products Factory (CPF) in Chisinau, where the state owns almost 80% of the shares, remained without about 60 real estates, after more than dubious transactions, which took place over several days, in Apr…
17 July 2014
Constitutional Court saved a policeman from prison
Radu Starinschi, sentenced to two years of imprisonment by the Court of Appeals (CA) Chisinau, remains at liberty. After the Constitutional Court (CC), which declared unconstitutional the amendments to the Crim…
10 July 2014
PARTIES FOR SALE: Some politicians are ready to quit their parties and russian speakers – even propagate European integration
Victor Stepaniuc, former communist deputy, current president of the Socialist People's Party (PPS), is ready to give the party he founded and even to support Moldova's European integration. Also Michael Garbuz,…
26 June 2014
Măriuța Nistor
“Team Europe” in PAS with people who have flirted with Shor and Plahotniuc
19 October 2023
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