A new set of criminal proceedings have been started against the businessman-turned-politician Ilah Shor as he is believed to have violated his bail conditions, specifically the travel restrictions, announced Prosecutor General Eduard Harungjen.

While no records exist at the Chisinau Airport and other border checkpoints that Shor existed Moldova, says Harunjen, there is a reasonable suspicion that the politician did sneak out of the country as he has failed to report his whereabouts and appear at the latest hearing in the Cahul Court of Appeals last week.

“We cannot be faulted for letting Ilan Shor leave Moldova. We actually requested his arrest twice lately,” said prosecutor Adriana Bețișor.

Earlier the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office seized a host of Shor’s assets as part of the bank fraud investigations, including cars, real property, and stocks in companies believed to have played a role in the massive embezzlement.

In June 2017, Ilan Shor was sentenced to six and a half years in prison. But with the sentence appealed, not only did he not spent one day in jail, he managed to be elected MP and carry his party into Parliament while on bail. In February 2018, his trial somehow got relocated to an appellate court in the city of Cahul, some 165km south-west of Chisinau, where the case has been protracted since.