The mayor of Orhei town, businessman Ilan Shor will be questioned by anticorruption prosecutors on October 19. The information was confirmed for IPN by the spokeswoman for the National Anticorruption Center Angela Starinski.

On October 15, Parliament withdrew the immunity of Liberal-Democratic MP Vlad Filat by the votes of 79 lawmakers of 101, following a request made by the prosecutor general. According to Corneliu Gurin’s requisition, while holding the post of Prime Minister, Vlad Filat asked and received money from Ilan Shor for stopping the inspections at Dufremol, for naming him honorific consul in Russia and for allowing him to sell oil products. Also, Vlad Filat asked from Ilan Shor property and financial resources of over US$190 million for influencing public functionaries from the Government and other state institutions to take decisions and to adopt normative documents needed to ensure the issuing of additional shares at Banca de Economii, without the participation of the state. This led to the diminution of the state-owned holding in this bank to 33.3% plus 1 share. These decisions also ensured the naming of Ilan Shor as head of the Administration Board of Banca de Economii and this thus obtained real possibilities of influencing the activity and decisions of the bank.

Vlad Filat was arrested. One of his lawyers announced that in the evening of October 17, the Liberal-Democratic heavyweight filed a complaint against Ilan Shor because the latter made ‘calumnious statements’ against him.