The leader of the Șor Party Ilan Șor remained without the seat of MP. Parliament adopted a draft decision by which the status of MP of Ilan Șor is annulled and the seat is declared vacant, after the MPs familiarized themselves with the Chisinau Appeals Court’s decision by which the politician was sentenced to 15 years in jail, IPN reports.
By its definitive decision of April 13, the Chisinau Appeals Court sentenced Ilan Șor to 15 years behind bars for swindle and money laundering in the bank fraud case and banned him from holding posts in the banking sector for a period of five years and ordered to levy a sum of 5.2 billion lei on the politician.
The head of the parliamentary legal commission on appointments and immunities Olesea Stamate said in Parliament that the court’s decision leads to the loss of the seat of MP and this set will be declared vacant.
The draft decision was adopted by the votes of 54 MPs of the Party of Action and Solidarity. Twenty-six MPs of the Bloc of Communists and Socialists didn’t vote.
Ilan Șor, being quoted in a press release of the party he leads, said that his seat of MP was entrusted to him by the people and only the people can decide to withdraw it. According to him, the government’s decision to strip him of the seat of MP is a hysterical reaction to the national resistance action set for May 7. Ilan Șor was stripped of parliamentary immunity for several times, including after the elections of July 2021. In the last legislature, he didn’t attend any sitting of Parliament.
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 given sentence was challenged in the Chisinau Appeals Court and the examination of the case was delayed as the case was transferred to the Cahul Appeals Court at the request of the lawyers for Shor. Later, the case was returned to the Chisinau Appeals Court, also at the request of the lawyers. After the Chisinau Appeals Court passed its decision, the lawyers for the leader of the Șor Party said the sentence will be challenged in the Supreme Court of Justice.
