If MP Ilan Șor is stripped of immunity, the Prosecutor General’s Office has the right to ask for a preventive measure against him over the nine counts of which he is accused and to ask for the extradition of the MP who is allegedly in Israel. Earlier, the extradition was asked only based on the case that is tried by the Chisinau Appeals Court, said acting prosecutor general Dumitru Robu, who presented in Parliament details about the nine counts, IPN reports.

Dumitru Robu said all the nine requests by which he asked to lift the immunity are based on evidence.  Asked why it was necessary to formulate nine requests, the prosecutor noted an application needs to be formulated and submitted on each count.

One of the requests says there is a reasonable suspicion that Ilan Șor falsified statements and that he, while serving as mayor of Orhei municipality and later as an MP, didn’t declare his and his family’s real properties even if he was obliged to do it. In 2016-2019, in his property and personal interests statement, he didn’t present information about the real estate owned by his wife, including the sales and purchase agreements concluded in Russian and the owned bank accounts.

The acting prosecutor general said the undeclared property is to be sequestrated and could be later confiscated in favor of the state.

One of the draft decisions to strip Ilan Șor of parliamentary immunity was accepted by the votes of 60 PAS MPs and 28 BCS MPs.

Ilan Șor is accused of large-scale swindle, money laundering, creation and management of a criminal organization, falsification of documents, appropriation, abuse of power and abuse of office.

Ilan Șor, who disappeared from the public sphere in June 2019, said that this is a show staged by President Maia Sandu. Ilan Șor was also stripped of parliamentary immunity in August 2019.