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It’s been a few weeks since six TV stations controlled by corrupt politicians, their affiliates or entities in the Russian Federation were suspended. During all this time, there have been many accusations in the public arena that the media guild and the civil media society are not showing solidarity, that they do not care about...
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Dodon’s departure to Romania, facilitated by the wife of party colleague Dinari Cojocaru. Prosecutors’ accusations and Cojocaru’s arguments # Ziarul de Garda
The wife of socialist municipal councillor Dinari Cojocaru, an employee of IMSP Buiucani Territorial Medical Association, is the person who, according to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA), “asked” another doctor to sign the document confirming the need for Igor Dodon to travel abroad for post Covid-19 rehabilitation treatment for one of the former president’s sons....
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Extraordinary meeting of the Superior Council of Prosecutors. Five topics on the agenda, including the competition for the election of the head of the PCCOCS # Ziarul de Garda
UPDATE: Due to lack of quorum, the extraordinary meeting that was to be held today has been postponed to January 31, 2023 at 2pm. At the same time, an ordinary meeting of the CSP has been set for 2 February. Original news: On Friday 28 January, starting at 10 a.m., the members of the Superior...
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Moldova is among the countries with the most complaints and convictions at the ECtHR. The amount of compensation exceeded 22 million euros # Ziarul de Garda
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) received 642 applications filed against Moldova in 2022. Compared to the country’s population, this number is very high, with Moldova ranking 4th out of 46 Council of Europe member states, with Moldovans applying to the ECtHR 5 times more often than the European average. The findings are contained...
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The first decisions on non-judge candidates for the Superior Council of Magistracy submitted by the Parliament: two candidates did not submit a declaration of assets and personal interests and another withdrew from the competition # Ziarul de Garda
The pre-vetting commission announced on Friday, 27 January, the decisions on three non-judge candidates on the list submitted by the Parliament for the position of member of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM). Thus, according to the Commission, the non-judge candidates Evgheni Florea, a university professor at the State University of Comrat, and Ilie Mămăligă,...
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Access to the personal data of the former Intelligence and Security Service officer, candidate for the head of PCCOCS. IPRE “condemns any intimidation” of Executive Director Iulian Groza and details the “incident of erroneous access” to property data # Ziarul de Garda
The Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE), a non-profit association, came forward on Thursday 26 January with clarifications in the context of the information published online about the criminal complaint of Eugen Rurac, candidate for the position of Chief Prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCCS),...
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Superior Council of Prosecutors, reply to the Minister of Justice: “The suspension of the competition for the selection of the candidate for the position of Chief Prosecutor of the PCCOCS is to be decided according to the law, but not on social networks” # Ziarul de Garda
Members of the Superior Council of Prosecutors (CSP) claim that the position of the Minister of Justice, Sergiu Litvinenco, regarding the conduct of the competition for the position of chief prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS), “results in several conclusions without factual support and legal content”, but which...
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Accusations in the process of appointing the head of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases. A former deputy Prosecutor General wants to be appointed without a competition. A member of the candidate pre-selection committee is asking for the competition to be cancelled, while one of the candidates is asking for that member to be excluded # Ziarul de Garda
Several people are calling for the annulment of the competition to fill the post of head of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS). Each has their reasons. For example, prosecutor Eduard Bulat, who was one of the deputies of former acting Prosecutor General Dumitru Robu, is asking to be appointed...
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Reaction of the Minister of Justice to the accusations in the process of appointing the head of the PCCOCS: “The competition will be repeated” # Ziarul de Garda
Justice Minister Sergiu Litvinenco says that “legal solutions must be identified to cancel or suspend” the competition to fill the post of head of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS), so that a repeated competition can be initiated later. The Minister’s reaction comes as several public figures are calling for...
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Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office requests house arrest for former President Igor Dodon # Ziarul de Garda
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) announces that on 26 January it submitted a request to the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) to replace the preventive measure against former President Igor Dodon, accused of committing the crime of passive bribery, organizing and accepting political party financing from a “criminal organization”. Prosecutors are asking for the measure...
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Results of the first pre-selection stage of the competition for the post of Head of the PCCOCS: the three candidates admitted to the interview test # Ziarul de Garda
The special pre-selection commission for the candidates for the position of chief prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases (PCCOC), which met in a closed session on Monday, 23 January, to examine the candidates’ files in terms of eligibility criteria, decided that the three candidates for the position of head...
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Bank fraud case: the PA announces that it has completed the prosecution of former Democratic MP Vladimir Andronachi and an accomplice # Ziarul de Garda
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) announces that on 25 January 2023 it concluded the criminal prosecution against Vladimir Andronachi and an accomplice in the criminal case separated from the case generically called ,,Bank Fraud” . “As a result of the alleged offences, the State of Moldova has been damaged by more than 26 million lei,...
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New details in the “Bank Fraud” case: the PA announces when the next court hearing in the case of Vladimir Plahotniuc will take place # Ziarul de Garda
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) announces that a new court hearing has been set for February 6, 2023, at 11:00 a.m., at the Chisinau Court of Appeal on the case of the defendant Vladimir Plahotniuc in the case generically called “Bank Fraud.” On November 17, 2022, the Chisinau Court of Appeals, Ciocana seat, admitted the...
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Details on the criminal cases in which former MP Constantin Țuțu is accused of fraud, influence peddling and illicit enrichment # Ziarul de Garda
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) comes with details on the criminal case of fraud and influence peddling in which former Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) MP Constantin Țuțu was accused of demanding and receiving 20,000 euros from a person in September-October 2017 to influence prosecutors and judges to adopt favorable solutions for a defendant. According...
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Igor Dodon: “Prosecutors raided the doctors who prescribed treatment to my son with interrogation and the collection of records”. PA representatives say they cannot provide information # Ziarul de Garda
Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, who is due to travel to Romania from 28 January to 5 February to accompany his underage son for rehabilitation treatment, claims that prosecutors have “raided and questioned the doctors who recommended the treatment”. Contacted by ZdG, the press service of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office said it was currently “unable...
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Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office announces it will not challenge the acquittal of former National Bank Deputy Governor and three other former employees in the “Laundromat” case # Ziarul de Garda
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) announced on Tuesday, January 24, that it will not challenge the acquittal sentence handed down on January 4 by the Buiucani Court of Chisinau to former deputy governor of the National Bank of Moldova (BNM) Emma Tabirță and the institution’s former heads of department, Matei Dohotaru, Ruslan Grate and Vladimir...
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Prosecutors announce the end of criminal proceedings against former deputy police chief Gheorghe Cavcaliuc in the Petic and Verbițchi cases # Ziarul de Garda
Prosecutors from the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS), together with officers of the Intelligence and Security Service (SIS), announced on Wednesday, January 25, the termination of the criminal prosecution of former deputy chief of the General Police Inspectorate, leader of the “We Build Europe at Home” (PACE) party, Gheorghe Cavcaliuc....
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Case of former 13 defector MPs, closed after three years: “the criminal acts do not meet the elements of a crime”. # Ziarul de Garda
The case of the “defector MPs” has been closed after three years of investigation, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) announced on Wednesday, January 25. According to the PA, the criminal case was closed on the grounds that “the criminal acts attributed to them do not meet the elements of a crime”. At the same time,...
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Pre-Vetting Commission’s decisions on the integrity of four candidates to the CSM: Who are those who failed or met the”criteria of financial and ethical integrity” # Ziarul de Garda
The pre-vetting commission announces on Monday 23 January the outcome of the assessment of four more candidates for membership of the CSM from among career judges. Two decisions to pass and two decisions not to pass the integrity assessment have been sent to the candidates concerned and to the institution responsible for organising the competition....
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National Anti-Corruption Centre announces 26 criminal cases opened on illegal agricultural subsidies # Ziarul de Garda
Officers of the National Anti-Corruption Centre (CNA) and prosecutors from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) carried out 68 raids on Tuesday, 24 January 2023, in criminal cases related to the management by the Agricultural Intervention and Payments Agency (AIPA) of funds from several projects. Details of the raids were given at a press briefing by...
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Police say they have detained a member of a “criminal group” specialising in the illegal transportation of Ukrainian citizens to Moldova # Ziarul de Garda
A Moldovan man, a member of a “criminal group” specializing in the illegal transportation of Ukrainian citizens to Moldova, has been detained by law enforcement officials for 72 hours, police announced on January 24. The man is 40 years old and was living in Ukraine, also having Ukrainian citizenship. According to police, he was an...
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Former Moldovan Railways chief Iurie Topala placed under house arrest. Prosecutors: “The law does not provide for the appeal of this decision” # Ziarul de Garda
The former head of the Moldovan Railways (CFM) Iurie Topala, accused of abuse of office, has been placed under house arrest. The Buiucani court in Chisinau decided on Friday, January 27, to change the preventive measure against the former director, after three months of detention in Penitentiary No. 13, to house arrest. The information was...
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Ilan Shor’s lawyers have reportedly been included by the Moldovan authorities in the list of persons suspected of being associated with those subject to sanctions. Lawyers’ Union: “An arbitrarily adopted decision” # Ziarul de Garda
Representatives of the Union of Lawyers of the Republic of Moldova (UARM) are “deeply concerned” about the work of the Intelligence and Security Service (SIS) in connection with the inclusion of lawyers representing fugitive MP Ilan Shor in court, Aureliu Colenco and Iulian Balan, in the “List of persons suspected of being associated with natural...
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Was Igor Dodon’s brother detained and released in Moscow or not? What the Prosecutor General’s Office (doesn’t) say # Ziarul de Garda
Alexandru Dodon, the brother of former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, was reportedly detained on January 17 by Russian authorities and shortly after – released. An announcement to this effect was made by the leader of the “Our Party” political party, controversial businessman Renato Usatii, at a press conference. Asked by Ziarul de Gardă, the spokeswoman...
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Former Interior Minister Alexandru Jizdan, indicted on five counts in the “Petic case” # Ziarul de Garda
Former Interior Minister Alexandru Jizdan was indicted in December 2022 “in the Petic episode”. He is accused of acting as an organizer in the commission of several crimes. At the same time, the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organised Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS) challenged in October at the Chisinau Court of Appeal the annulment of...
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Veronica Dragalin, Head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office: “Citizens who have information about the corruption of prosecutors should come and denounce them” # Ziarul de Garda
Head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (PA) Veronica Dragalin has called on Moldovan citizens who have information about corruption acts involving anti-corruption prosecutors to denounce them. The statement was made on Jurnal TV’s “Secrets of Power” programme on Wednesday 18 January. On corruption in the Prosecutor’s Office, the PA chief said she had heard “rumours...
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Military vehicles on the national route Leuseni-Chisinau: Moldova to receive a donation of medical protective equipment from Romania # Ziarul de Garda
The National Army is to receive a consignment of protective medical equipment from the Ministry of National Defence in Bucharest on January 19-20 on behalf of the government in Chisinau. According to the Ministry of Defence, the military vehicles involved in the transport of medical supplies will travel on the Leuseni-Chisinau national route. Thus, the...
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SIS: Two more websites “promoting information inciting hatred and war” to be blocked # Ziarul de Garda
The director of the Information and Security Service (SIS), Alexandru Musteața, signed on Thursday, 19 January, an order providing for the blocking of access from the territory of Moldova of two sources with online content, “promoting information inciting hatred and war, under the state of emergency”. Access to the eadaily.com and bloknot.ru portals is to...
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Members of the Legal Committees of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova and the Romanian Senate, in a joint meeting # Ziarul de Garda
Members of the Legal, Appointments and Immunities Committee of the Moldovan Parliament will convene a joint meeting with members of the Legal, Appointments, Discipline, Immunities and Validations Committee of the Romanian Senate. The event will take place from 19 to 22 January in Argeș county. According to a statement by the Executive, the joint meeting...
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Former President Igor Dodon may leave the country. The judges of the Supreme Court allowed him to leave for Romania # Ziarul de Garda
Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, who is accused of committing the crime of passive bribery, organising and accepting political party funding from a “criminal organisation”, has been allowed to leave the country. The Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) granted the former head of state’s request to leave for Romania. The information was confirmed to ZdG...
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Raids on meat importing companies: They allegedly knowingly put dangerous products on sale to customers # Ziarul de Garda
Tuesday’s 12 raids on four meat importing companies targeted cold storage warehouses with about 480 tons of meat, the companies’ offices and their cars, a statement said Thursday, Jan. 19. According to the authorities, the meat would be dangerous to the life and health of buyers. The batches of meat are being investigated and corroborated...
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The Supreme Court of Justice extended the 60-day ban on former President Igor Dodon from leaving the country # Ziarul de Garda
Judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) have admitted the prosecutor’s request to extend the term of the preventive measure – an order not to leave the country for 60 days, regarding Igor Dodon. The decision was taken at a hearing on Monday 16 January. Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon is accused of committing...
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Two bailiffs have been stripped of their licences: ‘They grossly violated the law, their duties and did not respect court rulings’ # Ziarul de Garda
Justice Minister Sergiu Litvinenco announces on Thursday, January 19, that he issued orders to withdraw the licenses and terminate the work of two bailiffs. They are George Botan and Nicolae Pasha. According to the official, the orders are based on the decisions of the disciplinary college which found that the two executors “grossly violated the...
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The hearing at the Chisinau Court of Appeal in the Shor case was postponed. Lawyers of the fugitive MP have requested postponement of the hearing for another two months # Ziarul de Garda
The hearing in Ilan Shor’s criminal case of fraud and money laundering pending at the Chisinau Court of Appeals has been postponed again, the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday, January 18. During the hearing, Ilan Shor’s lawyers asked the court to admit two lawyers from the United Kingdom to the trial and postpone the...
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Fugitive MP Ilan Shor has hired a UK law firm to represent him in court in Moldova # Ziarul de Garda
Fugitive MP Ilan Shor, who was sentenced in 2017 to prison for fraud and put on international wanted list, has hired a UK law firm to represent him in Moldovan courts, his lawyers announced at a press briefing on Tuesday, January 17. The world-renowned English firm BCL “Solicitors” LLP, which will represent IlAN Shor on...
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Draft law amending the regulatory framework related to the reform of the CSJ: the court will have more limited powers # Ziarul de Garda
Representatives of the Ministry of Justice announce that the draft law on the modification of the regulatory framework related to the reform of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) has been drafted. Thus, after the promotion of the draft, the CSJ will have more restricted competences and will not act as a second court of...
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How the Chisinau Court of Appeal motivated the decision to reject the application filed by the “Avia Invest” company, which will return the International Airport to state management # Ziarul de Garda
The limited liability company “Avia Invest”, which manages the Chisinau International Airport, “admitted non-fulfilment of the obligations assumed under the concession contract, which are circumscribed by the need to present the guarantee of good execution”, concluded the Chisinau Court of Appeal, according to the reasoned decision of the court. At the same time, according to...
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Moldovan-Romanian operation: law enforcement officers raided several customs posts on both sides of the border. # Ziarul de Garda
Officers of the Internal Protection and Anti-Corruption Service (SPIA) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI), together with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, as part of an international operation initiated with the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) and the General Anti-Corruption Directorate (DGA) of the Romanian MAI, simultaneously raided and searched several customs posts on both sides...
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Andrei Spînu’s address against Ion Ceban. The date has been set for the first hearing in the case concerning the “defence of the honour, dignity and professional reputation” of the Deputy Prime Minister # Ziarul de Garda
The first court hearing in the case concerning the “defence of honour, dignity and professional reputation”, in which Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development Andrei Spînu asked the capital mayor Ion Ceban to deny the “denigrating” statements made against him in a broadcast, will take place on March 28, 2023. Minister Andrei...
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The Institute of Mother and Child would have to pay 200 thousand lei – moral damage, for admitting obstetric and gynaecological violence # Ziarul de Garda
The Chisinau City Court, Centre seat, has partially admitted the civil action filed by EM against Public Medical and Health Institution (IMSP) ‘Institute of Mother and Child’*. By the court’s decision, it was ordered to charge from the account of the Institute of Mother and Child the amount of 200 thousand lei as moral damages....
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Appointment of Sergiu Russu as interim chief prosecutor of PCCOCS rejected by the PSC. Prosecutor Victor Furtună selected by the Council # Ziarul de Garda
The interim deputy head of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS), Victor Furtună, will serve as interim chief prosecutor of the same institution. The decision was taken by the Superior Council of Prosecutors (SCP), which rejected Sergiu Russu’s interim appointment by an order of the interim Prosecutor General. Anti-corruption prosecutor...
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The Superior Council of Prosecutors has appointed two deputies to the interim Prosecutor General # Ziarul de Garda
The Superior Council of Prosecutors (CSP) has appointed prosecutors Aliona Nesterov and Igor Demciucin as deputies of acting Prosecutor General Ion Munteanu. The decision was approved at the CSP meeting on 16 January 2023. The decision of the CSP will be forwarded to the interim Prosecutor General for the start of the procedures for issuing...
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CSJ declares inadmissible the appeal filed by former Education Minister Lilia Pogolșa, found to have violated the legal regime of conflicts of interest # Ziarul de Garda
Magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) declared inadmissible the appeal filed by former Education Minister Lilia Pogolșa against a decision of the Chisinau Court of Appeal, which rejected her request to annul the act of the National Integrity Authority (ANI) in which she was found with conflict of interest. The decision was handed...
16 January 2023
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MP Olesea Stamate’s reaction to the criticism of the draft state tax law: “If we need to change something – we will do it before the second reading” # Ziarul de Garda
Chairwoman of the Parliament’s Legal, Appointments and Immunities Committee Olesea Stamate, one of the authors of the draft law on the state tax, voted in the first reading, says that “if something needs to be changed – we will do it by the second reading”. Stamate stressed that the legislative initiative is the result of...
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A man from Balti detained by law enforcement officers for intent to trade over 100 thousand fake US dollars # Ziarul de Garda
Prosecutors from the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS), together with officers from the National Investigation Inspectorate (INI) of the Police, detained a man from Balti after he put counterfeit US dollars into circulation in December 2022-January 2023 from the 130,000 counterfeit dollars brought into the country from Turkey. According to...
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Who are the judges who will examine the appeals submitted to the CSJ by magistrates who failed the Pre-Vetting Commission assessment # Ziarul de Garda
The Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) has set up a special panel to examine appeals against the decisions of the Independent Integrity Assessment Commission for the evaluation of candidates for membership of the self-governing bodies of judges and prosecutors. Thus, the panel that will examine the appeals submitted to the CSJ by magistrates who applied...
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CEC informs that new rules for conducting political advertising have entered into force # Ziarul de Garda
The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) informs that the new rules for the conduct of political advertising came into force on 8 January 2023. Thus, according to the CEC, the broadcasting of political advertising takes place only on the basis of the advertising broadcasting contract concluded in written form between the advertising distributor and the advertising...
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President of the European Parliament after meeting Natalia Gavrilița: “We will continue to support Moldova as a candidate country. We thank her for believing in Europe and supporting European values” # Ziarul de Garda
“Moldova has shown great determination in promoting reforms, defending European values and rejecting hybrid threats. We will continue to support it as a candidate country for membership of the European Union,” wrote European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Saturday, 7 January 2023, after a meeting with Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita in Germany. Gavrilița is on...
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Three inhabitants of Balti municipality sentenced to life imprisonment for committing the crime of influence peddling against a prosecutor and a judge # Ziarul de Garda
Three residents of the municipality of Balti were sentenced to 4 and 3 years’ imprisonment with execution for committing the crime of influence peddling against a prosecutor and a judge. The General Prosecutor’s Office (PG) announces that the magistrates of the Balti Court, Central Headquarters, pronounced on Thursday, 12 January, the sentence in a criminal...
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During her working visit to Germany on Saturday, 7 January, Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița delivered a speech to the Parliamentary Group of the Christian Social Union (CSU) in the German Bundestag and had bilateral meetings with the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and the leader of the European People’s Party (EPP) group in...
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