Ilan Shor

Shor was born in Tel Aviv, Israel on 6 March 1987, the son of Miron and Maria Shor,[7] Moldovan Jews from Chișinău who had moved to Israel in the late 1970s.[8] The family returned to Chișinău around 1990, when Shor was either two or three years old, and his father went into business in Moldova.[2][8] His father died in 2005.[9] Shor has been married to the Russian singer Jasmin since 2011.[9][10] In addition to Jasmin's son from a previous marriage, they have a daughter, Margarita, who was born in 2012, and a son, Miron, who was born in 2016.[11]

The Kroll report claims that although the final beneficiaries are unknown, some companies to which Shor has links benefited, either directly or indirectly, from loans issued from the three banks involved in the 2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal.[12] On 26 November 2014, the banks went bankrupt and were later placed under special administration of the National Bank of Moldova. On 27 November, the Moldovan Government, headed by Prime Minister Iurie Leancă, secretly decided to bail out the three banks with $870 million in emergency loans, covered from state reserves. This created a deficit in Moldovan public finances equivalent to an eighth of the country's GDP.

In the week preceding the 2014 Moldovan parliamentary elections, more than $750 million were extracted from the three banks between 24 and 26 November. A van belonging to Klassica Force, while transporting 12 sacks of bank files, was stolen and burned on November 27.[13] Records of many transactions were deleted from the banks' computers.[14]

In March 2015, Ilan Shor was suspected by the National Anti-Corruption Center (NAC) for his work in the Savings Bank. On 17 March 2015 he was questioned for 8 hours and anti-corruption officers seized his personal property. On May 6, 2015, Shor was placed under house arrest. As of 2015, Shor is allowed to move freely, after a period of house arrest. This is because he fully cooperated with the investigation. Despite this, he was allowed to register for electoral race for the mayor of city of Orhei, a contest in which he won 62% of the vote on June 14 local government election.[9][15][16]

On 13 April 2023, Shor was sentenced to 15 in years in prison in absentia on graft charges.[17][18][19][20]