Ilan Șor sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of seized assets
Fugitive MP Ilan Shor, under criminal investigation in Moldova for money laundering, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The decision, which is final, was taken by the magistrates of the Court of Appeal, announced MP Olesea Stamate.
"Finally a case where justice has triumphed in our country too! Șor - definitively sentenced by the Court of Appeal to 15 years in prison! Wherever he serves his imprisonment, in Israel or Moldova - the assets on which the seizure was applied will now be confiscated in favor of the state - 5 billion lei! And that's just in the case on which the decision was given today, others are to follow", announced the Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs, Appointments and Immunities, Olesea Stamate.
In turn, Ilan Șor said in a video intervention that the decision of the Court of Appeal is illegal and will be annulled the day after the change of government.
"This decision does not bother me, I am not going to submit to this illegal decision, because this decision will be annulled the day after the change of the current regime, by an honest and unbiased court," Ilan Șor said.
Ilan Șor was sentenced in 2017 in the "billion theft" case to seven and a half years in prison for fraud and money laundering, worth more than 5.4 billion lei. The court ordered that the sentence will not take effect until it becomes final.
The case has been pending in the Chisinau Court of Appeal for a long time, with court hearings repeatedly postponed.
In 2019, after the Democratic Party left the government, Ilan Șor left the country. According to prosecutors, he is in Israel, which Ilan Șor confirms.
