In a new hearing in the case of the president of the Administration Board of Banca de Economii Ilan Shor, held at the Cahul Appeals Court, the recusal request made by lawyers Denis Calaida and Aureliu Colenco was rejected as groundless.

Contacted by IPN for details, lawyer Aureliu Colenco said the defense didn’t expect another decision to be taken as that court always rejects everything and the examination took place in their absence. “There is a state prosecutor there, who was named abusively by the court of law, ex officio,” stated the lawyer, noting that the defense will make approaches whenever the court violates the procedural norms and the legal provisions, this being a defense method.

The next hearing at the Cahul Appeals Court in the Shor case was set for January 22, 10am.

In June 2017, the Chisinau City Court sentenced Ilan Shor to seven years and a half in jail for causing considerable damage to the state by swindle and abuse of trust. The sentence was appealed. In June 2019, Ilan Shor disappeared from the public sphere and was charged with illegal leaving of the country. On August 15, 2019, he was stripped of parliamentary immunity.