Chișinău fines blogger Nekoglai 100,000 lei for driving after cannabis
A Chișinău court fined Moldovan TikToker Nikolai Lebedev, known as Nekoglai, 100,000 lei (about 480,000 rubles) on 11 June 2026 for driving without a licence and refusing a blood sample, after a drug test found cannabinoids. Traffic police stopped him in Chișinău in February 2025, when he said he had smoked marijuana.
A Chișinău court found Moldovan TikToker and streamer Nikolai Lebedev, known
online as Nekoglai, guilty of driving without a licence and refusing a
compulsory blood sample, and fined him 100,000 lei.[1]The case rested on a
plea agreement, and the court took into account that Lebedev had not been tried
before, had admitted guilt and had repented.[2]
Moldovan traffic police stopped him in Chișinău because he had no documents with
him and they suspected he was under the influence of drugs.[2]Officers said
his eyes were reddened and cloudy and that a strong smell of marijuana came from
the car, and Lebedev told them he had used marijuana.[2]He was taken to the
Republican Narcological Dispensary, where doctors found cannabinoids at a
concentration of 205 ng/ml in his urine.[2]He refused to give a blood sample,
citing a fear of syringes.[2]He was charged in the summer of 2025 under
Moldova’s offence of driving while intoxicated or drugged, which carries up to
five years in prison.[2]Traffic police stopped the blogger in Chișinău in an
inadequate state at the wheel in June 2025, and he refused to give blood for
testing.[3]
An examination showed cannabinoids in his blood, and the court fined him and
barred him from leaving Moldova until he paid.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Charged
1
Fine
MDL 100,000
Agency type
Police, Court
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Sale, Use
Setting
Vehicle, Prison
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison, Fine
Sources
TVR Moldovatvrmoldova.mdROTiktokerul Nekoglai, reținut pentru trafic de droguri, a fost încarcerat la Penitenciarul nr. 13
Izvestiaiz.ruJoint after joint: before blogger Nekoglai was detained in Moldova, he was tried in another case
NEWS.runews.ruRUСтало известно о предыдущем задержании Некоглая из-за наркотиков
Open questions the AI reported
NEWS.ru and Life.ru date the traffic stop to June 2025, while Izvestia's account of the court file puts it on the evening of 26 February 2025; this report uses 11 June 2026, the sentencing date, and does not settle the stop date.
No figure for the quantity of cannabis involved was published; the case concerns a positive cannabinoid urine test, not a seizure.
Reports do not say whether the fine was paid or whether the exit ban was enforced.
The sentence came under a plea agreement; the full court ruling itself was not opened, only journalists' accounts of the case file.
The separate September 2026 drug-trafficking and drug-den case against Lebedev and his wife, reported alongside this one, is a different event left out of this report.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in TVR Moldova: The court at Buiucani fined him 2,000 conventional units, the equivalent of 100,000 lei.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Life.ru: Road police noticed his reddened, clouded eyes, and Lebedev said he had smoked marijuana.
Four Chisinau students aged 19-22 were detained in Comrat for allegedly selling marijuana to fellow students. A court placed all four in preventive arrest for 30 days while trafficking charges carrying 15-17 years are investigated.
Police in Chișinău held a 25-year-old man for 72 hours after his Ford struck two pedestrians on a crossing on Grigore Vieru Boulevard on 10 November 2026, killing a woman of about 30. Tests found amphetamine, methamphetamine, PVP and cannabis in his body, and he held no driving licence.
Capital Police in Chișinău detained 10 people over the past week and are handling 19 drug cases after seizing PVP, hashish, marijuana and mephedrone. Patrol officers separately caught 13 people with prohibited substances and consumption devices, drawing up 26 contravention reports.
A Chisinau court sentenced the organizer of a 2023 smuggling of more than 16.8 kg of hashish from Ukraine to nine years in prison and declared him wanted. The hashish was hidden in a car’s spare-wheel niche and stopped at Lipcani; the woman driver and an accomplice had already been sentenced in 2024.
