Ilan Șor's BEM case sent to court for pre-trial detention in absentia
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has indicted Ilan Shor in the case regarding the embezzlement of $100 million from Banca de Economii, accusing him of having played the role of organizer, instigator and co-author of the crime, committed by an organized criminal group. According to investigators, the acts occurred between July 2013 and September 2014, when Shor held the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of SA "Banca de Economii".
The Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office announces that it has completed the criminal investigation and sent the case to the court for examination on the merits. The case concerns Ilan Șor, accused of embezzlement of foreign assets in particularly large proportions, a crime provided for in Article 191 paragraph (5) of the Criminal Code.
According to the press release, "Ilan Șor is accused of having played the role of organizer, instigator and co-author of the crime of embezzlement of foreign assets, committed by several persons within an organized criminal group, in particularly large proportions".
According to the evidence administered by the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office together with the National Anticorruption Center, between July 2013 and September 2014, Șor allegedly organized and coordinated a criminal group that would have developed a scheme to embezzle 100 million US dollars from the assets of Banca de Economii.
The investigators claim that he exercised de facto control over several financial and banking institutions through intermediary persons and ensured the adoption of administrative, legal and economic-financial decisions necessary for the implementation of the criminal plan. In this way, according to the prosecutors, the conditions were created for the transfer and use of Banca de Economii funds in the interests of the organized criminal group, including through the use of false documents.
Also, the institution recalls that, on June 17, 2026, the Chisinau Court based in Ciocana admitted the prosecutor's request and ordered the application, in the absence of the accused, of the preventive measure of preventive arrest for a period of 30 days.
The prosecutors also mention that for the charged crime the law provides for a prison sentence of eight to 15 years.
