The Supreme Court of Justice today ruled to transfer Ilan Shor’s case from the Cahul Court of Appeals to the Chisinau Court of Appeals, as requested by the fugitive politician’s lawyers.

The Supreme Court also upheld the decision to have Ilan Shor declared wanted and arrested as a result of him absconding.

The SCJ ruling is irreversible.

In June 2017, Ilan Shor was sentenced to 7½ years in jail for his role in the 2014 bank fraud. The sentence was appealed, and has remained in limbo ever since, and Shor was released on bail. Meanwhile, Shor won a lawmaker’s seat in the Moldovan Parliament, twice. In June 2019, immediately after the oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc fled Moldova, Shor followed suit and prosecutors sought his arrest for breaching bail conditions.