Petru Bogatu

Petru Bogatu (12 July 1951 – 22 March 2020)

Together with six other experts from Romania, the Netherlands and the Republic of Moldova, Bogatu was co-author of the book "Twitter Revolution, First Episode: Republic of Moldova", which is a synthesis of the April 2009 anti-communist protests in data, images and investigations. He wrote the fiction novel The rope braided in three, a parable of police intrigue about the geopolitical confrontations from the beginning of the third millennium, seen from an ethical, teleological and historical perspective.

Petru Bogatu was born on 12 July 1951 in

He served as vice president of the Popular Front of Moldova (1990–1992). From 1995 until 2000, Bogatu was the most popular journalist in Moldova. Later he worked for Vocea Basarabiei (2009), Jurnal TV (2009). He left Jurnal Trust Media in September 2013.^[3]

Bogatu was also a political commentator and op-ed writer for the Ziarul Național newspaper. Since 2016 he was a producer and presenter of the TV program "Cronica lui Bogatu" (English: Chronicles of Bogatu) on Prime TV channel.

He died on 22 March 2020, in Chișinău.^[1]

In October 2015 Petru Bogatu, as an op-ed columnist for Ziarul Național, wrote hard criticism of Vladimir Plahotniuc's address, stating that he [Plahotniuc] "has usurped the central country's administration", and "has subordinate to him prosecutora and judges, subjugating this way country's constitutional institutions. As a result, he transformed the state into a private firm, and the justice – into a gestapo for the intimidation and burial of his political opponents".^[4] Next year Bogatu began his work at Prime TV, a channel owned by Plahotniuc.^[5]

• 2008 – "Investigative Journalism" (manual)
  ISBN 978-9975-80-188-1
• 2012 – "Cord of Three Strands" (novel)
  ISBN 978-9975-53-157-3

• Republica Moldova: 50+1 jurnalişti
  ISBN 9975-65-076-3

• PETRU BOGATU. Omul care ne face ordine în debaraua din cap
• Petru Bogatu's blog
• Petru Bogatu - ape.md