Investigations
Moldova “Guilty” of Human Rights Violations in the Prison System
Since the beginning of 2019, 72 convicts have been released from prisons in Moldova on the grounds that they were being held in inhuman and degrading conditions that violated the European Convention on Human Ri…
20 October 2019
Moldova, Explained by ZdG. October 14, 2019.
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chișinău on its “birthday”! Here’s what’s happening this week: our feature breaks down the many moving pieces in the “theft of the century” investigation and explains why the…
14 October 2019
Fugitive Oligarch Wanted in Moldova’s “Theft of the Century” Case
Since its formation in June, Moldova’s coalition Government has represented an unlikely union between pro-E.U. and pro-Russian parties. But with an anti-oligarch stance holding the alliance together, the Govern…
14 October 2019
Prosecutor Tried for Knowingly Condemning an Innocent Person Is Acquitted
A Chișinău Court has acquitted a prosecutor who stood trial in August 2017 for knowingly condemning an innocent person. A policeman previously convicted for the falsification of procedural documents in the same…
13 October 2019
The Mayor Who Never Was
After Andrei Năstase, leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform Party, filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights regarding the invalidation of his victory in Chișinău’s May-June 2018 local election…
13 October 2019
POLL/ Why is Moldova’s Justice so Resistant to Reforms?
The commitments of former governments failed to add credibility to the justice system. At the same time, judges newly appointed to the Constitutional Court and the changes to the Law of the Prosecutor’s O…
13 October 2019
Moldova, Explained by ZdG. October 7, 2019.
HAPPENING THIS WEEK Greetings from Chişinău after a boozy wine day weekend! Here’s what’s happening this week: we feature a story on the troublesome revamping of the Superior Council of Magistrates, the main in…
07 October 2019
The Borman Case and the Absence of Țuțu and Plahotniuc Cases
Alleged drug trafficker Oleg Pruteanu, alias Oleg Borman, was released from detention after almost two years’ imprisonment on September 20, 2019. But he was immediately detained again in another criminal case f…
07 October 2019
Former PM Filip’s Hometown Benefits From A Disproportionate Amount of State Funded Projects
When Pavel Filip became Prime Minister of Moldova in 2016, the number of projects financed from the state budget and implemented in his hometown began to increase. But in the race to implement multiple projects…
07 October 2019
Moldova’s Battle for Justice Reform at the Superior Council of Magistrates
After Moldova’s oligarchic regime was ousted in June, the new coalition government placed high on their reform agenda the law and order institutions, including the Prosecutor’s Office and the courts. At the end…
06 October 2019
REPORTAGE
