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Illustration: a wide lowland river with calm water in soft summer afternoon light; dry grass and willows on the bank reflected in the water, with gentle hills in the distance. No people are shown.
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The 9-year-old boy who went missing in the Prut at Ungheni has been found dead

The search at Ungheni has ended in tragedy. On Thursday morning, 23 July, at 09.47, divers of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations found the body of the 9-year-old boy swept away on Tuesday by the currents of the Prut while bathing with other children. The body was found 3–4 kilometres downstream from where he entered the water; the exact cause of death is to be established by law enforcement. The tragedy comes a month after the district's Emergency Situations Commission ordered patrols in the bathing areas along the Prut.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· News
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Empty transparent baggies, a precision electronic scale and a phone with its screen lit up on a dark surface — illustrative image.
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17 drug criminal cases in Ungheni in 2026 — already more than in all of 2025

In response to a public-interest request, the Ungheni Police Inspectorate disclosed the raion's drug caseload: 12 criminal cases in 2025 and 17 since the start of 2026, young people aged 17–20 among those detained, a network that sold on Telegram, and an admission by the institution itself — that police presence on the ground ‘is insufficient’ without modern technology. What the figures and the articles of law behind them actually mean.

Ion Calmis·20 July 2026· Analysis
Evidence laid out on the floor and photographed by police: stacks of printed zip-lock baggies, a precision electronic scale, a blackened spoon and small, dark pieces of hashish.
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Why Telegram drug networks look for couriers who are exactly 18 — police detained one of them in Ungheni

The Anti-Drug Directorate detained him at his home in Ungheni after about a month of surveillance: police say he collected drugs in bulk, portioned them in a rented flat in Chișinău and hid them around the city for a shop that sells on Telegram. Police announced the value of the goods — over 50,000 lei — but not the quantity in grams, the one figure that decides whether the sentence starts at 2 years or at 7. He is the second 18-year-old announced in twelve days with exactly the same pattern, and the Criminal Code shows why this link in the chain is sought at precisely this age.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· Explainer