New Criminal Cases Opened Against Sor, Including One on Illegal Party Financing

This was announced by the head of the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, Marcel Dumbravan. According to Dumbravan, last year prosecutors completed and sent to court 17 criminal cases directly related to the Sor Party, which was declared unconstitutional, Radio Moldova reports. “The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office is investigating several criminal cases involving the illegal financing of certain political parties, and the actions of a number of individuals, including Ilan Sor, are being examined in relation to specific incidents. Ilan Sor is accused in a criminal case related to illegal party financing, and he is also under investigation in other criminal cases,” Dumbravan said. Businessman and former MP Ilan Sor was finally sentenced in April 2023 to 15 years in prison for participating in a “bank robbery” that resulted in more than $1 billion disappearing from the Moldovan banking system. In 2019, he left Moldova after the Democratic Party led by Vlad Plahotniuc lost power, lived in Israel for several years, and then settled in Moscow, where he obtained citizenship and political protection. In addition to his prison sentence, Sor was ordered to return more than 5.2 billion lei stolen from the banking system to the state. Despite Chisinau's requests for Sor's extradition, the Moscow authorities did not respond. Sor is under sanctions from the US, EU, Canada and the UK for influencing events in favor of Russia, including illegal party financing, voter bribery, paid protests and destabilisation of the electoral process in Moldova.