A 13-year-old girl drowned in the Prut River near Leova city. Carried away by currents, she was pulled under the water and was never seen surfacing back. The police warn that in a single day four minors lost their lives in emergency situations. In Criuleni district, a 10-year-old boy died and another 11-year-old was seriously injured after the former set off a grenade at the playground. In Riscani, an 11-year-old girl was fatally struck by a car, and in Chisinau a four-year-old girl fell out of a six-floor window. Also, two Moldovan citizens died and six ended up in hospital with different injuries following a road accident in Bihor county, Romania.

Veaceslav Platon said ex-Premier Iurie Leancă was fully involved in the infamous theft of bank funds in Moldova, but this didn’t understand what he was doing. He stated that after the arrest of the then leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vlad Filat, all the MPs who defected to the Democratic Party were bribed. “I don’t know how much money each of these got, but I know for sure that they were bribed. They monthly got money in envelopes, from €3,000 to €5,000. Iurie Leancă was fully involved in the bank fraud,” said the ex-MP. He also said that the bank theft was committed in a number of stages. At the first stage, money from the three banks - Unibank, Banca Socială and Banca de Economii – were withdrawn in the form of loans that were repaid by granting new loans.

A new party called Common Action – Civic Congress Party, founded by former MPs Mark Tkachuk and Iurie Muntean, appeared on the Moldovan political arena. The party is said to be “the first anti-crisis party in Moldova”. According to the program, the party aims to swiftly and radically change the whole system of public relations where the modernized economy should be used to ensure continuous human development. The Common Action – Civic Congress Party is the third party created in Moldova in the recent past.

Pensions could be indexed two times a year – on April 1 and on October 1. A bill to this effect was drafted by presidential advisers Ion Chicu and Viorica Dumbrăveanu, President Igor Dodon said another legislative proposals that is being drafted provides that the old-age open son will be paid for five years to the husband/wife or successors if the person died before reaching retirement. Another social initiative refers to the provision of financial assistance during the cold period of the year to socially deprived persons. In the talk show “Key issue” on NTV Moldova channel, President Dodon also said the acting prosecutor general Dumitru Robu, who was recently confirmed by Parliament, should deal with three key tasks – bank fraud, usurpation of power and corruption and smuggling schemes. “We preliminarily agreed with the Premier and the colleagues that the next meeting of the Supreme Security Council will take place in mid-August and we should discuss with the prosecutor general so that concrete results are achieved by then,” he stated.

Prime Minister Maia Sandu has called for the involvement of all civil servants on which the elimination of the monopoly on the export of walnuts depends. "Several economic operators got criminal cases started against them and, respectively, these companies could not export walnuts. There were only a few businesses without criminal cases and monopoly was thus instituted. Now the process got stuck at the Prosecutor’s Office”, Maia Sandu said during the Government meeting.

Of Moldova’s 44 police inspectorates, 17 are currently operating without chiefs. Some of them left before the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior changed. This was stated by Interior Minister Andrei Năstase on TV8’s "Cutia Neagră" show. “Some left before this. Others left around the date of June 8. While I didn’t do a lot of firing myself, I appealed to the conscience of those in the Ministry of the Interior and in the subordinated forces, in particular the police inspectorates, and told them that those who had done wrong things would do everyone a favor and leave,” said Năstase. The minister added that the officers working in the Special Operations Division of the National Investigation Inspectorate, which he earlier announced would be disbanded, are facing internal probes, with some cases already taken over by prosecutors.

Vasile Costiuc, the leader of a group called "For Dodon's Removal", said that Igor Dodon had serious problems of morality and integrity. He noted that Igor Dodon puts his people in important institutions, including Security and Intelligence Service, National Anticorruption Center and in the prosecution service. "If those who now run the Government do not understand this, then they do not deserve to be called leaders of the Republic of Moldova. Dodon does not intend to share power with either Sandu or Năstase", said the leader of the group.

Since April 2018, upwards of ten thousand persons have applied for recognition of Moldovan citizenship, and 72% of them, hailing from the left bank of the Nistru river and Bender municipality, have already acquired it. Before the procedure was simplified in April 2018, Moldovan citizenship was formally recognized for only about 300 people from the Transnistrian region a year.

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