The owner of a foreign exchange office in Causeni has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of attempting to organize the murder of a competitor.

Over the past two days, law enforcers detained 11 heads of territorial organizations of the “Victory” bloc (founded by fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor - “I.”) and parties affiliated with it.

The Moldovan police detained three attackers who stole large sums of money from frightened women by deception.

Bishop of Balti and Falesti Marchel was fined 3.5 thousand lei for election campaigning in the church.

Police searched four men suspected of poaching in the Straseni district. Hunting equipment, a smoothbore and air rifle, a pistol and more than 40 rounds of ammunition were seized from two of the men.

In Cimislia and Comrat, operatives of the National Anti-Corruption Center (NAC) and Cahul prosecutors conducted searches on Tuesday in two criminal cases of vote-buying and illegal financing of political parties. The NAC told INFOTAG that six people came to the attention of the law enforcement agencies. Their homes and cars were searched, during which cell phones, money and draft records were seized.

Police have detained a doctor who “helped” voters in an old people's home in Comrat to vote in the elections. Police said he faces up to five years in prison for violating the secrecy of the vote.

A resident of Cimislia is suspected of fraud under the guise of employing citizens in Israel.

Alexander Koss, former director of the Foreign Investors Association (FIA) of Moldova and former speaker of the board of the Moldovan-German company Südzucker Moldova, died in a plane crash on Sunday. His light airplane crashed on Sunday morning in Vadul-lui-Voda, INFOTAG news agency reported.

In Ungheni district, police detained a coordinator from a party affiliated to the fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor, who was engaged in bribing voters before the referendum and presidential elections.

In Chisinau, the police suppressed the activity of two drug traffickers who seized 20 kg of drugs.

The Inspectorate General of Police (IGP) said it has identified all citizens who received money to influence the elections. According to the report, more than 400 people are under investigation for influencing the receipt of money to select voters. They face fines of up to 37,500 lei.

Police in Chisinau have detained four people from whom they seized drugs worth 2.2 million lei.

Valeriu Pasha, a member of the Council of the Center for Strategic Communications and Fight against Disinformation, believes that the referendum was held “in conditions of powerful disinformation, insufficient communication, but, most importantly, with such a large-scale purchase of votes (it is not 130 thousand, but a much larger amount)”.

Law enforcers' searches in Nisporeni and Straseni districts on Friday revealed six suspects in two cases of voter corruption.

Law enforcers reported about disclosure of the activities of a group of more than a hundred young people (including girls), who were prepared in Russia and a number of European countries for actions to destabilize the situation in Moldova during the presidential elections.

Searches are being conducted in Romania in a case of smuggling cigarettes from Moldova and Ukraine.

Two local residents have been detained by the police in Mihaileni village, Riscani district, on charges of murdering a drinking companion.

In the north of Moldova - near the village of Lencăuti, Ocnita district, border guards discovered on Wednesday several fragments, presumably of a missile, 4 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

In the past 72 hours, 4,300 drivers committed traffic violations, with more than half of them speeding. 79 drivers were drunk behind the wheel, while 475 failed to obey priority road signs and prohibiting traffic signals, and 174 were driving without wearing seat belts.