Investigations
Serving Moscow. Three months among Shor’s “slaves”. ZdG undercover investigation
Ziarul de Gardă once again penetrated Ilan Shor's network. For three months we have documented from the inside with the help of a hidden camera how money circulates and how people working for Ilan Shor are recr…
15 October
“Team Europe” in PAS with people who have flirted with Shor and Plahotniuc
“The Action and Solidarity Party tried to show that they are pro-Europeans, that they want to develop this state and not bury it, but their actions show something else entirely: collaborations with pro-Ru…
20 October 2023
“They beat them very often, they were tied to radiators or kept a whole day and night in WC, left without food. I decided not to leave it like that, because there are children abandoned by their parents”
About the courage of integrity whistleblowers and how the state (doesn’t) protect them They disclosed illegal practices they observed in the institutions where they are employed or whose beneficiaries the…
29 July 2023
European Political Community Summit, held at a private winery: Temporarily secretive costs, tenders worth hundreds of millions of lei and misunderstandings between Chisinau City Hall and the government
Authorities have temporarily secreted several information about the organization of the European Political Community Summit to be held in Moldova on June 1, “to avoid sabotage and disruption”. Offic…
08 May 2023
Former deputy chief of the Varnița passport section, targeted in a ZdG investigation, sentenced to two years suspended prison and fined 110 thousand lei for active corruption
Aurel Cuconescu-Palii, the former deputy head of the Varnița passport department, targeted in an investigation by the Ziarul de Gardă, has been sentenced to a two-year suspended prison term on probation by Anen…
25 March 2023
The factory of clones of “Ilan Shor for the people”
Every day, at least 21 pages and over 100 fake Facebook profiles polish the image of fugitive deputy Ilan Shor, leader of the Shor Party. Numerous pages created in Asia received, overnight, new names and photos…
20 January 2023
The New York Times: War Next Door Brings Energy Crunch, and Paid Protests, to Moldova.
„The tiny country, starved of natural gas and electricity because of the conflict in neighboring Ukraine, is confronting street rallies bankrolled by a pro-Russian politician to target its pro-Western governmen…
12 December 2022
“I have information that can help the law enforcement agencies to uncover and punish cases of corruption that have been thriving for decades in Bubuieci commune”
For four decades, Andrei Ilescu has lived in Bubuieci commune. For 12 years, he was a councillor in the Bubuieci local council. His work at local level has given him an insight into the situation of the commune…
05 December 2022
Rubles for Dodon: Six bank transfers from Russia to Moldovan public association headed by former socialist president – RISE Moldova
As head of state, Igor Dodon and his party have built some of their election campaigns on theories that Moldova is in danger of being captured by foreigners. At the same time, they insisted that foreign-backed…
07 November 2022
Newly created fake profiles, identical comments, anonymous pages from Indonesia, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates and more than half a million lei invested in just one month to promote Ilan Shor’s protests
Thousands of comments praising Ilan Shor flow daily on the fugitive MP’s Facebook pages and on pages affiliated with his party and his activity. Analysing the profiles of the most active commenters, ZdG f…
31 October 2022
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