#Investigation
A 130 Million Dollars Loss for Electricity Debt
Moldova’s state budget could lose almost 130 million dollars as damage, the equivalent of about 2.2 billion Moldovan lei, due to a twenty-year-old debt for the electricity received from Romania. Following an au…
04 March 2021
The Forestry Administrative Authority’s Director Risks Losing His Job
The director of the forestry administrative authority Moldsilva has three conflicts of interest and risks losing his mandate and the right to hold a public office for 3 years. The National Integrity Authority i…
04 March 2021
The Head Of The Biggest Moldovan Cemetery Reinstated
Pavel Eni, the head of the Saint Lazarus cemetery, previously detained for corruption and later suspended from office at the prosecutors’ request, was reinstated. The Chișinău Court took the decision on Thursda…
25 February 2021
The Russian Laundromat: Testimonies Against Moldovan Politicians and Controversial Businessmen
The investigation targeting Oleg Kuzmin, the Russian bank European Express’s former director of the board of directors has been completed. He pleaded guilty in the case of money laundering in particularly large…
08 February 2021
Criminal Cases Becoming Non-Criminal for a Moldovan Prosecutor
A former prosecutor from the Chișinău Prosecutor’s Office was tried for exceeding his authority and accused of investigating fraudulently a murder case of a Dutch citizen killed by three Moldovan citizens…
02 February 2021
Local Corruption of Thousands of Euros for a Cultural Center’s Renovation Work
In the last two years, the authorities invested over 660,000 euros from the state budget in the repair of the community cultural center in Gotești, Cantemir district, southern Moldova. However, ZdG found that t…
22 January 2021
2020 Top for ZdG: The Most-Read Investigations, Reports, and Interviews
In 2020, the website www.zdg.md hosted the most readers in its history: 5 million. The news, surveys, interviews, and reports of ZdG journalists were read, distributed, and discussed both online and in many loc…
15 January 2021
Rigged Matches and Corruption in the Moldovan Football
National Anticorruption Center prosecutors investigate eleven people in a criminal case of manipulating sports events. Presidents of football clubs, directors of sports schools, and players representing 5 teams…
08 December 2020
The Mayor Who Bought a Village
Ten years after the floods wiped the Cotul Morii village from Hîncești district off the map, people still cannot do property deeds on the new houses, built by the authorities on a hill, next to the old village.
18 September 2020
Testing the Effectiveness of Disinfectants: Mission Impossible in Moldova
The COVID-19 pandemic has made disinfectants indispensable worldwide, and the market demand has led to counterfeit disinfectants’ appearance. The ZdG team carried an experiment and tried testing three local dis…
12 September 2020
