Prime Minister Maia Sandu met with Deputy President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Alain Pilloux.

The European Union has taken a decision to resume financial assistance for Moldova earlier than it was initially promised, the European mass media have reported.

The Prosecutor General's Office press service refuted rumors that the leakage of information from the second Kroll report came from the PGO.

The parliamentary commission on investigating bank fraud addressed to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to confirm the authenticity of the second and third parts of the second Kroll report, published by Partidul Nostru [Our Party] leader Renato Usatii.

The National Bank of Moldova announced that control package (over 50%) of shares in the Mobiasbanca – Groupe Societe Generale will be sold to OTP Bank Nyrt. (Hungary).

On Thursday, Prime Minister Maya Sandu made public a de-classified document on the smuggling schemes that used to be run via duty-free shops situated in Transnistria.

In June, prices in Moldova dropped by an average of 0.2% against 1.4% inflation in May. The cumulative inflation rate in 2019 reached 4.3%, and 4.4% over the past 12 months, which corresponds to the target corridor of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) – 5% plus o minus 1.5%.

IMF staff and Moldovan authorities reached a staff-level agreement on the fourth and fifth reviews under the IMF-supported economic program.

The Moldova Agroindbank Board issued an unprecedented decision to compensate up to 500 thousand lei to each client, who suffered from the recent robbery in one of bank offices, despite treaty provisions and the national and regional bank practice.

With an almost tacit consent of the National Bank of Moldova, the exchange rate of the Moldovan leu easily went beyond the figures of MDL18 : US$1 and MDL20 : Euro1.

Four years after the scandalous one-billion-dollar bank fraud in Moldova, the Second Report, prepared by the Kroll detective agency of the USA, was made public in this republic on July 4.

Moldova President Igor Dodon has assured the Monitoring Mission of the International Monetary Fund that the new Moldovan leadership is not intending to restrict the independence of the National Bank (NBM) or other regulators.

As of the beginning of July, tax revenues to the national budget exceeded 19.2 billion lei (over US$1 billion), which is 975.7 million lei or 5.4% more than over the equivalent period of 2018.

Moldovan businessman Veaceslav Platon, sentenced to 30 years in jail for financial machinations he rejects, has addressed via the Facebook with an open letter to Moldova President Igor Dodon, Parliament Speaker Zinaida Greceanii and Prime Minister Maya Sandu. He believes that any person could find oneself in his place, “accused of most ridiculous sins”.

Revenues to the state budget exceeded 14,922 million lei (US$829 million) as of the beginning of June, growing 902.4 million lei (6.4%) in January-May against the equivalent period of 2018.

Former state official Sorin Stati also described how amber smuggling through the Chisinau International Airport was organized.

Sorin Stati, the former head of several major State-run enterprises, has made public the “sensational smuggling schemes” run under the patronage of the previous Moldovan Government and of Democratic Party leaders. In various years, Sorin Stati was Director of the Posta Moldovei state enterprise [national postal authority] and Director of the Moldovan Air Traffic Services Authority (MoldATSA).

Professional market participants say that the National Bank of Moldova’s decision to change the main rates of monetary policy instruments was unexpected and ambiguous.

Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn has expressed confidence that the European Union’s financial assistance to Moldova (budget support, macro-financial assistance) may be de-frosted during this upcoming autumn starting from September.

The creation of a parliamentary commission on investigating the conditions of privatization and concession of important governmental institutions since 2013 was approved by most of MPs on Tuesday.