Ilan Shor

Ilan Shor was born in 1987 in Tel Aviv

Shor was born in Tel Aviv on 6 March 1987 to Miron and Maria Shor, Jews from Chișinău who had moved to Israel in the late 1970s. The family returned to Chișinău around 1990, and his father went into business there. His father died in 2005.

Shor owns several Moldovan businesses, including the duty-free company Dufremol and the FC Milsami football club. In 2014 he became chairman of the board of the Savings Bank of Moldova. In 2018 he opened the OrheiLand amusement park with free entry.

In November 2014 large sums were taken out of 3 Moldovan banks, and auditors linked the transfers to companies tied to Shor. He was placed under house arrest in 2015, and in June 2017 he was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for money laundering, fraud and breach of trust. In 2019 he left for Israel, and in April 2023 an appeal court raised the sentence to 15 years in absentia.

Shor was elected mayor of Orhei in 2015 with 62% of the vote and served until 2019. He was elected to parliament in 2019 and 2021 on the Șor Party list and was removed in April 2023 after his conviction was confirmed. The Constitutional Court banned his party in June 2023 and revoked the ban in March 2024.

Shor received Russian citizenship in 2024 and lives in Russia. In April 2024 he formed the Victory bloc in Moscow with Moldovan political figures. On 1 December 2025 he announced the end of his social projects in Moldova.