#Ilan Șor

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Sancțiunile contra liderilor opoziției din R. Moldova demonstrează și mai mult sprijinul UE în curățarea întregului câmp politic moldovenesc

Pentru prima dată, UE a impus sancțiuni împotriva liderilor opoziției moldovenești Ilan Șor și Marina Tauber, precum și a oligarhului Vladimir Plahotniuc și a liderului partidului PACE, Gheorghe Cavcaliuc. Georgiana Arsene ▪️ Ilan Șor, președintele principalului partid de opoziție, este acuzat de “incitare la violență”, “finanțarea activităților politice pro-Kremlin” și “organizarea de proteste…

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The ȘOR Party [...] was a populist political party in Moldova.[13] Known from its foundation in 1998 until October 2016 as the Socio-Political Movement "Equality"[...],[14][15] the party held Eurosceptic and Russophilic stances.[16]

The party was closed down in 2023 having been declared unconstitutional.

The party was founded in 1998 by Moldovan politician Valerii Klimenco as the "Socio-Political Movement "Equality".[17][...]

In 2015, the party decided to nominate Ilan Shor for Mayor of the town of Orhei. [...] In October 2016, Shor was elected president of the party, which was renamed Șor Party. In June 2017, the party President, Ilan Shor was sentenced to 7.5 years in jail for fraud. He broke house arrest and fled the country in 2019 whilst appealing the sentence.[20] On 1 December 2018, the party joined the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe.[21][...]

The party organized a Victory Day parade in Chișinău on 9 May 2019.[27][...]

The Șor Party was the main instigator of the 2022–2023 Moldovan protests.[28][...]

On 8 November 2022, the Moldovan government requested the constitutional court to initiate proceedings for the outlawing of the party in Moldova, due to it allegedly promoting the interests of a foreign state (Russia) and harming the independence and sovereignty of the country.[29][30]

On 13 April 2023, the appeal court doubled the sentence of party President Ilan Shor in a case linked to the theft of $1 billion in bank assets as well as money laundering, breach of trust, and fraud to 15 years in prison in absentia and froze his assets. Shor was living in Israel at the time of the court ruling after having fled Moldova in 2019.[31][...]

On 19 June 2023, the Șor Party was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Moldova.[35][36][37] [...]

On 31 July, the Moldovan parliament voted in favour of banning the leaders of the dissolved Șor Party – including Ilan Shor – from standing in elections for a period of five years.[41] In October the Constitutional Court of Moldova ruled that Article 16 of the Electoral Code is unconstitutional and that former members of the Șor Party can stand for elections.[42][...]

The Party's 2019 programme introduced the following points:[46]

○ Free universal health care.

○ Free education including higher education. Increasing the size and scope of disability benefits, maternity benefits and retirement pensions.

○ The creation of modernised collective farms to work alongside the private sector. Active state intervention in the spheres of infrastructure, transport, energy, communications, housing, pharmaceuticals, etc.

○ The nationalization of foreign-owned energy companies.

○ A commitment to law and order including both reinstating the death penalty for particularly dangerous criminals and addressing the underlying socioeconomic issues that may cause crime.

○ A commitment to Moldovan independence and military neutrality.

The opening paragraphs of the party's 2008 election programme stated that it viewed the average person's quality of life as superior under the Soviet Union when compared to modern times. It further stated that it viewed Moldova's alleged socio-economic problems as relating to Moldova's negative relationship with the Russian Federation.[47]

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Nicolae Fratea is on a mission to purge his Facebook timeline of weird political adverts. Every couple of days, he’s presented with accounts that, on the surface, look innocent—they often share the same innocuous profile picture of a cathedral in Chisinau, Moldova. But when he scrolls past, these pages present him with what he describes as “soft propaganda,” trying to entice him to join anti-government protests.

The ads echo the political messages of Ilan Shor, a sanctioned politician and businessman with deep links to the Kremlin, who has been accused by the US government of trying to destabilize Moldova on behalf of Russia. On Sunday, these ads helped promote Moldova’s most recent anti-government rally in the capital, Chinasu, which was attended by thousands of people. 

A video editor by day, Fratea now spends his evenings sleuthing for information on the shadowy Facebook pages that deliver these adverts. “What all these pages have in common is the fact they promote Shor’s parties, his agenda, and his news channels,” says the 38-year-old, who works for the news channel Jurnal TV. When he sees them, he leaves a review to warn others. His most recent reads: “Fake account! Fake page!” He also reports them to Facebook. But in 90 percent of cases, he says, the platform replies telling him everything looks normal. 

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was presaged by years of information operations, which used propaganda networks on social media to spread misinformation, influence elections, and undermine social cohesion. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, promised to crack down on these state-backed influence campaigns in response to the war. “We’re taking extensive steps to fight the spread of misinformation,” the company said in January, in a report detailing its wartime policies to the EU. “We established a special operations center staffed by experts from across the company, including native Russian and Ukrainian speakers, who are monitoring the platform around the clock, allowing us to respond to issues in real time.”

Moldova, however, appears to fall outside that purview—despite sharing a border with Ukraine. The influence campaign being waged in Moldova would be unthinkable in Western Europe or North America, says Felix Kartte, senior adviser at the technology and democracy campaign group, Reset. “We're seeing basically Kremlin agents running overt campaigns on Facebook, trying to bring down a democratic government by mobilizing sham protests via Facebook ads.” 

Meta spokesperson Ben Waters says that Facebook adheres to US sanctions. “When Ilan Shor and the Șor Party were added to the US sanctions list, we took action on their known accounts,” he adds. “When we identified new associated accounts, we took action on those as well.”

In the months immediately after Russia launched its full-scale assault on Ukraine, Moldova worried it could be the Kremlin’s next military target—especially as the Russian army pushed towards the nearby Ukrainian city of Odessa. Around 1,500 Russian soldiers are already stationed in Transnistria, a breakaway region of Moldova. 

When Russia retreated to Ukraine’s east, the fear of an invasion eased a little. But it has been replaced by another more insidious concern that Russia could take over Moldova from the inside.

Russia’s influence operations often focus less on trying to push specific political parties, and more on undermining trust in government or driving wedges between different social groups. Lithuanian fact-checkers from the group Delfi Melo Detektorius say they are witnessing attempts to drive a furor about an EU law approving the sale of insect powder for human consumption. In several countries, notably Poland, Russia has been accused of pushing disinformation about LGBTQI communities. In Moldova, the current messaging focuses on the high price of utility bills, which have surged after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  

“This is part of the Russian playbook,” says Valeriu Pașa, president and chair of Watchdog.MD, a Moldovan think tank that has been tracking disinformation and online influence campaigns. “If you cannot convince someone to endorse your version of events, you can at least try to confuse people until they don’t trust anything.” 

Shor, who owns a football club and a duty-free company, along with other businesses, was a bit-part player in Moldovan politics until 2015, when police opened an investigation into suspected fraud at three banks, including one where Shor was the chair. He joined the Șor party and ran for mayor in the city of Orhei. He won the election with 62 percent of the vote, but he was convicted of bank fraud two years later. He now lives in exile in Israel.

Since then, the Șor Party has received advice from political strategists sent by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. When those strategists reported back in 2021, they described what had been decided: Șor was to be positioned as a party offering “concrete action,” it would be populist “in the real sense of the word,” offering to change “people’s lives for the better.”

The US sanctioned Shor in October, saying the support he had received from Russia was designed to destabilize Moldova.

The Șor Party did not respond to a request for comment. 

As a person under sanctions, Shor is not technically allowed to advertise on Facebook. But Watchdog.MD says Shor has found a loophole in Facebook’s ad system that allows him to dodge restrictions to  promote his political agenda. 

On February 3, he appeared in a video criticizing the government for the surging cost of energy bills, which soared five-fold after Russia cut the supply of gas flowing into Moldova. “Today, the most necessary professions in the country, such as doctors and teachers, are forced to take out loans in order to pay for utilities,” he says, expressing his support for a petition that calls on the government to write off the population’s winter energy bills. 

What’s strange about the video is its origin. It was posted by a page that has been liked by only 19 people. But the video has been watched more than 600,000 times, a huge amount in a country with a population of less than 2.5 million. Watchdog.MD says the video has been aggressively promoted using ads. But on February 10, when researchers looked at the page’s ad library—where past and present adverts are meant to appear—the video was gone. Watchdog.MD does not know how to explain why Shor’s ads don’t always show up in Facebook’s ad tracker. 

Every week, new pages sprang up, running new ads on behalf of the Șor Party. Between the 13th and 19th of February, Watchdog.MD identified seven ads run by five different pages. Between the 1st and 10th of February, there were seven ads run by six different pages. 

Many of these pages were created with Vietnamese names, including Shop Mua Bán (Shop, Buy, Sell) or Shop Ban Giay (Shoe Shop) or Tạp Chí Phái Đẹp (Beauty Magazine). Their names were later changed to names that referred explicitly to Moldova, such as “For Chisinau” or “For the People.” Many of the pages state that they have admins based in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, and Indonesia. 

“It’s clear that behind these ads are people who know very well and understand how Facebook works and how to avoid all these internal rules,” Pașa says.

The pages are often taken down after Watchdog.MD reports them, but as soon as Facebook bans one, another will soon replace it. Pașa is frustrated at Facebook’s lack of a systemic approach to dealing with the problem. “They say they are investigating, and we trust them, but their approach is reactive.” 

Facebook has been reporting on similar types of Russian influence campaigns since at least 2017. During the US presidential election in 2022, the platform banned political ads entirely. But in Moldova, the ads keep coming.

Reset’s Kartte says the ads he’s seen have been such a clear violation of Facebook’s terms of service, it implies the platform has not invested in sufficient resources or staff for the local market. “In Moldova, they clearly do not care,” he says. 

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Kremlin Shady Horse Ilan Șor: The main voice of Russia in Moldovan politics

Kremlin Shady Horse Ilan Șor: The main voice of Russia in Moldovan politics The project “Shady Horses” delves into investigating Russian propaganda dissemination within Western countries through promi Source : uacrisis.org/en/kremli…

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VIDEO: Echipa Evgheniei Guțul, cu sprijinul lui Ilan Șor, a deschis un centru social pentru tineret în satul Dezginja - Un cadou pentru copiii și tinerii

Bucurie pe fețele locuitorilor din satul Dezginja. Aici, echipa bașcanului Evghenia Guțul, cu sprijinul lui Ilan Șor, a restaurat clădirea unei școli abandonate, și a deschis un centru sportiv pentru tineri. Potrivit bașcanului, în autonomie se face totul pentru ca satele să devină atractive pentru tineri. “Acesta este primul obiect de infrastructură pe care îl deschidem în satul Dumneavoastră.…

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Ilan Șor, condamnat la 15 ani de închisoare

Ilan Șor, condamnat la 15 ani de închisoare Ilan Șor a fost condamnat la 15 ani de închisoare în dosarul privind „furtul miliardului”, scriu jurnaliștii de la cotidianul.md. Totodată, bunurile pe care a fost aplicat sechestru vor fi confiscate în favoarea statului – 5 miliarde de lei. Decizia a fost pronunțată joi, 13 aprilie, de Curtea de Apel, a anunțat președinta Comisiei juridice, numiri și…

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Noi proteste la Chișinău | Poliția spune că se vor încerca "acțiuni de destabilizare și dezordini în masă”

Se anunță din nou proteste la Chișinău față de guvernarea Maiei Sandu. “Mișcarea pentru Popor”, formată în jurul partidului oligarhului Ilan Șor, va ieși în stradă astăzi.

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Oligarhul pro-rus Ilan Șor încearcă din nou să agite spiritele în Chișinău cu un nou protest antiguvernamental | Digi24

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Mai multe posturi TV din Republica Moldova, care ar fi controlate de Ilan Șor, au rămas fără licență

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Fostul premier moldovean Iurie Leancă, cercetat penal și audiat în dosarul concesionării Aeroportului Internaţional Chişinău către oligarhul Ilan Șor și partenerii săi ruși

Fostul premier moldovean Iurie Leancă, cercetat penal și audiat în dosarul concesionării Aeroportului Internaţional Chişinău către oligarhul Ilan Șor și partenerii săi ruși

Fostul premier al Republicii Moldova, Iurie Leancă, a fost audiat vineri de către procurorii anticorupție de la Chișinău în legătură cu afacerea privatizării Aeroportului Internațional Chișinău, obiect strategic care a ajuns printr-o suverică de offshore-uri în mâinile oligarhului acum fugar, Ilan Șor. „Iurie Leancă a fost invitat la Procuratura Anticorupţie pentru a i se înainta statutul de…

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Șor a spus că România se îndreaptă de fapt spre anexarea Republicii Moldova

România pregătește o bază legislativă pentru anexarea Republicii Moldova. Opozantul moldovean Ilan Șor a declarat acest lucru pe rețelele sale de socializare la 4 aprilie. Politicianul a explicat cum Chișinăul promovează românizarea țării. Georgiana Arsene România încearcă să introducă trupe în Republica Moldova sub pretextul “amenințărilor hibride” și al protecției “cetățenilor români”, a…

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Compania Klassika Asigurări, parte a grupului Șor, a rămas fără licență Klassika Asigurări, ce face parte din imperiul financiar-imobiliar a lui Ilan Șor, a rămas fără licență. Comisia Națională a Pieței Financiare (CNPF) a suspendat licența firmei pe un termen de șase luni, iar decizia poate fi atacată la Judecătoria Chișinău.

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Ilan Șor a fentat Guvernul! Aeroportul Chișinău a ajuns în gestiunea familiei Rothschild „pe ușa din spate” | Moldova | DW

Ilan Șor a fentat Guvernul! Aeroportul Chișinău a ajuns în gestiunea familiei Rothschild „pe ușa din spate” | Moldova | DW

NR Investments Ltd a înștiințat joi, 29 august, Guvernul de la Chișinău despre finalizarea procesului de cumpărare a cotei de 95% din „Avia Invest” SRL, companie concesionară a Aeroportului Internațional Chișinău. „Avia Invest” aparține condamnatului în prima instanță Ilan Șor, care a reușit să fugă din Moldova cu câteva ore înainte ca fosta guvernare, controlată de oligarhul Vlad Plahotniuc,…

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Pasajul subteran din regiunea aeroportului a fost inaugurat de Ilan ȘOR

Pasajul subteran din regiunea aeroportului a fost inaugurat de Ilan ȘOR

Mai țineți minte că vă ziceam acum o lună despre importanța pasajelor subterane din orașul Chișinău [aici]. Tot atunci vă spuneam că de curând compania administratoare a Aeroportului Internațional Chișinău, Avia Invest SRL la inițiativa Partidului ȘOR, au început lucrările de reconstrucție a pasajului subteran de lângă orășelul Aeroport.

Ei bine, astăzi vreau să vă aduc la cunoștință că…

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Mircea Druc, fost premier al Moldovei: “Abia prin alegeri anticipate câștigă Putin” – AUDIO

“O greșeală”.

Astfel califică fostul premier al Moldovei Mircea Druc încercarea blocului pro-european ACUM, de la Chișinău, de a contesta rezultatul alegerilor parlamentare de duminică.

Socialiștii președintelui Igor Dodon s-au clasat pe prima poziție. Îi urmează blocul pro-european condus de Maia Sandu și Andrei Năstase, iar pe a treia poziție se alfă Partidul Democrat, de guvernămînt, al controveratului om de afaceri Vlad Plahotniuc.

Invitat în emisiunea Piața Victoriei, de la Europa FM, Mircea Druc a amintit de constatările observatorilor internaționali ai alegerilor – deși au reclamat mai multe nereguli, ei au calificat scrutinul drept unul corect.

“Ce facem? Facem alegeri anticipate? Abia acum cîștigă Vladimir Vladimirovici Putin, care vrea un singur lucru – destabilizare în zonă.

În martie sînt alegeri la Kiev și e o situație foarte gravă. Și-atunci, dacă n-am putut noi să cîștigăm alegerile (noi, Moscova) prin Dodon, măcar s-avem o destabilizare și  poate putem declanșa încă ceva – un Micromaidan sau o luptă de stradă“, a spus Mircea Druc.

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La rîndul său, ziaristul Mihai Voicu a adăugat că grație sistemului electoral – pe liste, dar și uninominal – partidul de guvernămînt de la Chișinău are șanse nu numai să păstreze puterea, dar chiar să o consolideze.

În Parlamentul de la Chișinău a mai intrat și Partidul ȘOR (prorus), condus de omul de afaceri Ilan Șor.

Acesta și-a recunoscut implicarea în așa-numitul dosar al “furtului secolului”, dispariția unui miliard de dolari din sistemul bancar moldovenesc.

Partidul ȘOR a obținut 8,3% dintre voturi.

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Mai mult, spune Mihai Voicu, euroscepticismul manifestat din ce în ce mai vizibil la stînga Prutului începe să cîștige teren și în Moldova.

“Echipa care îl consiliază pe domnul Plahotniuc îl consiliază și pe Liviu Dragnea: sînt politici în oglindă, dar jocul democratic este pur și simplu mimat.

Să nu uităm că, de fiecare dată cînd România a investit în oameni politici de-acolo, eșecul a fost răsunător“, a mai spus Mihai Voicu.

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