As from April 22, the Cahul Appeals Court put off at least five hearings in the case of the ex-president of the Administration Board of Banca de Economii Ilan Shor. The last hearing set for May 5 was postponed, as the previous ones were, for the reason that the case is at the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) even if the Supreme Court already rejected the request of the lawyers for Ilan Shor, who asked to transfer the case to another appeals court.

This is not for the first time that the lawyers for Ilan Shor ask the Supreme Court to transfer the case to another appeals court, but every time their request was rejected. Contacted by IPN for details, lawyer Denis Calaida said the requests were formulated because new circumstances appeared.

According to him, three are reasons for making such requests as the panel is not objective. “It was already rumored that if any of the requests made by the lawyers is accepted, society will perceive such a move from a negative angle. Therefore, this court cannot adopt objective solutions,” stated Denis Calaida.

He also said that a number of hearings were published on the Cahul Appeals Court’s website, but they were all planned earlier. The court will inform them when the case will return to Cahul and the examination process will be resumed.

The next hearing in the Shor case is to take place on May 7, starting at 10am, according to the Cahul Appeals Court’s agenda. At least eight hearings were scheduled for May and two for the start of June.

In June 2017, Ilan Shor was sentenced to seven years and a half in jail for causing damage to the state by swindle and abuse of trust. The sentence was challenged. In June 2019, Ilan Shor disappeared from the public sphere and got a criminal case started over illegal leaving of the country. On August 15, 2019, Ilan Shor was stripped of parliamentary immunity.