{"id":445200,"date":"2018-01-25T16:09:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=445200"},"modified":"2018-01-25T16:17:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:17:46","slug":"four-meps-distance-ilan-shor-epp-warns-not-support-shor-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/four-meps-distance-ilan-shor-epp-warns-not-support-shor-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Four MEPs distance themselves from Ilan Shor, EPP warns it does not support Shor party"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>24 January 2018-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eppgroup.eu\/news\/Statement-MEPs-Martusciello-Maullu-Pogliese-Cirio-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> In a statement<\/a>, four Italian members of the European Parliament from the EPP group denounced the way the Shor Party and some press outlets reported their recent visit to Orhei, the Moldovan city where the infamous banker Ilan Shor is mayor. The MEPs are Fulvio Martusciello,\u00a0Stefano Maullu,\u00a0Alberto Cirio and Salvatore Domenico Pogliese.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the visit was used to attack the center-right opposition in Moldova, to discredit the European People&#8217;s Party and to misguide the public opinion:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe deeply regret the malicious manipulations by the Shor party and the press regarding our last visit to Moldova. This visit to Moldova was conducted in our private capacity and does not represent, in any way, the European People\u2019s Party\u2019s (EPP) intention nor wish to express support or to work with Ilan Shor or with the Shor party.The use of the visit by the media &#8211; controlled by the Shor party and the ruling party &#8211; to attack the opposition, shows a desperate attempt to discredit the EPP, the center-right opposition in Moldova and to misguide the public opinion. \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The decision to distance from Shor comes after the EPP group declaration on the visit of the four Italian MEPs and another Czech EPP MEP,\u00a0Tomas Zdechovsky.\u00a0 According to the Foreign Affairs Coordinator of the EPP, Cristian Preda, the visit itself and the declarations of the given MEPs do not represent the position of the EPP in matters of foreign policy:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The European People&#8217;s Party does not have anything in common with Mr.Shor and his party&#8221;<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eppgroup.eu\/ro\/press-release\/PPE-se-delimiteaz%C4%83-de-vizita-a-cinci-deputa%C8%9Bi-la-Orhei?usebuid=12123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated the Romanian MEP<\/a><i>,\u00a0<\/i>adding that Maia Sandu&#8217;s Action and Solidarity Party and Andrei N\u0103stase&#8217;s Platform &#8220;Dignity and Truth&#8221; truly represents the pro-European, democratic forces with engagement to the anti-corruption fight Moldova needs.<\/p>\n<p>The four MEPs and the EPP can have the right to be concerned about how Shor&#8217;s media reflected <a href=\"http:\/\/partidulsor.md\/news\/cinci-deputa%C8%9Bi-europeni-ai-frac%C8%9Biunii-ppe-au-vizitat-republica-moldova-la-invita%C8%9Bia-lui-ilan-sor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their visits<\/a>: they allegedly pledged to support Shor in his political career, <a href=\"http:\/\/partidulsor.md\/news\/deputa%C8%9Bii-europeni-din-grupul-ppe-partidul-sor,-unica-forma%C8%9Biune-politica-ce-i%C8%99i-indepline%C8%99te-promisiunile-preelectorale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appreciated his projects in Orhei,<\/a>\u00a0even promised <a href=\"http:\/\/partidulsor.md\/news\/europarlamentar-catre-sor-va-vom-ajuta-in-solu%C8%9Bionarea-obiectiva-a-scandalului-bnacar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support in the investigation of the banking<\/a> frauds, <a href=\"http:\/\/partidulsor.md\/news\/europarlamentarul-din-ppe,-fulvio-martusciello,-%C8%99i-a-exprimat-neincrederea-fa%C8%9Ba-de-raportul-kroll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questioned the Kroll report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, just after the release of the EPP statement, the Shor party <a href=\"http:\/\/partidulsor.md\/news\/vicepre%C8%99edintele-partidului-%E2%80%9Esor%E2%80%9D,-marina-tauber-s-a-intalnit-cu-vicepre%C8%99edintele-parlamentului-european-livia-jaroka.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a report<\/a> on its Vice-President, Marina Tauber (Shor&#8217;s former business partner), meeting the Vice-President of the European Parliament, EPP-affiliated FIDESZ MEP, Livia Jaroka. The meeting was reportedly focused on &#8220;the role of women in politics&#8221; and the issues of &#8220;anti-semitism and xenophobia&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>EPP can issue statement after statement condemning Shor, but eventually, lobby groups will do their best with Shor&#8217;s money to make EPP MEPs or other figures available for meetings and discussions with the former banker or his associates.<\/p>\n<p>Ilan Shor has\u00a0other\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/radioorhei.info\/cine-sunt-cei-patru-europarlamentari-care-i-au-promis-lui-ilan-sor-spirijin-neconditionat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;supporters&#8221;<\/a> in the European Parliament: French MEP Jean-Luc Schaffhauser (who helped French Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen obtain a 9 million euros loan from the First Russian-Czech Bank), Italian MEPs Elisabetta\u00a0Gardini (VP of EPP, supporter of lifting personal sanctions against Russian officials), Lorenzo Fontana (Lega Nord). Schaffhauser, Fontana, and the above-mentioned Alberto Cirio visited the separatist entities in Eastern Ukraine, while Gardini failed to visit illegally-occupied Crimea. His sudden visits to the EP drew quite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/controversial-visit-guilty-1m-theft-ilan-shor-made-visit-european-parliament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some attention in the international and national press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/kroll-2-report-summary-reactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">central figure of the Kroll report on the &#8220;Billion Theft&#8221;<\/a>, Ilan Shor was sentenced to 7,5 years in prison for particularly large scams, money laundering.\u00a0Shor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/ilan-shors-case-defrauding-laundering-5-billion-lei-banca-de-economii-sent-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is accused<\/a>\u00a0of obtaining more than 5 billion lei from Banca de Economii in loans, from 4th to 25th of November 2014, the sum being confirmed by the\u00a0Kroll\u00a0report, and then laundering them through offshore companies. Ilan Shor has been under preventive arrest\u00a0since 22 June 2016 but then released in June 2017. He is currently the mayor of Orhei, a city in the center of Moldova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>24 January 2018- In a statement, four Italian members of the European Parliament from the EPP group denounced the way the Shor Party and some press outlets reported their recent visit to Orhei, the Moldovan city where the infamous banker Ilan Shor is mayor. The MEPs are Fulvio Martusciello,\u00a0Stefano Maullu,\u00a0Alberto Cirio and Salvatore Domenico Pogliese. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":445201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-445200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world-news","tag-important"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>24 January 2018-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eppgroup.eu\/news\/Statement-MEPs-Martusciello-Maullu-Pogliese-Cirio-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> In a statement<\/a>, four Italian members of the European Parliament from the EPP group denounced the way the Shor Party and some press outlets reported their recent visit to Orhei, the Moldovan city where the infamous banker Ilan Shor is mayor. The MEPs are Fulvio Martusciello,\u00a0Stefano Maullu,\u00a0Alberto Cirio and Salvatore Domenico Pogliese.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the visit was used to attack the center-right opposition in Moldova, to discredit the European People&#8217;s Party and to misguide the public opinion:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe deeply regret the malicious manipulations by the Shor party and the press regarding our last visit to Moldova. This visit to Moldova was conducted in our private capacity and does not represent, in any way, the European People\u2019s Party\u2019s (EPP) intention nor wish to express support or to work with Ilan Shor or with the Shor party.The use of the visit by the media &#8211; controlled by the Shor party and the ruling party &#8211; to attack the opposition, shows a desperate attempt to discredit the EPP, the center-right opposition in Moldova and to misguide the public opinion. \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The decision to distance from Shor comes after the EPP group declaration on the visit of the four Italian MEPs and another Czech EPP MEP,\u00a0Tomas Zdechovsky.\u00a0 According to the Foreign Affairs Coordinator of the EPP, Cristian Preda, the visit itself and the declarations of the given MEPs do not represent the position of the EPP in matters of foreign policy:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The European People&#8217;s Party does not have anything in common with Mr.Shor and his party&#8221;<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eppgroup.eu\/ro\/press-release\/PPE-se-delimiteaz%C4%83-de-vizita-a-cinci-deputa%C8%9Bi-la-Orhei?usebuid=12123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated the Romanian MEP<\/a><i>,\u00a0<\/i>adding that Maia Sandu&#8217;s Action and Solidarity Party and Andrei N\u0103stase&#8217;s Platform &#8220;Dignity and Truth&#8221; truly represents the pro-European, democratic forces with engagement to the anti-corruption fight Moldova needs.<\/p>\n<p>The four MEPs and the EPP can have the right to be concerned about how Shor&#8217;s media reflected <a href=\"http:\/\/partidulsor.md\/news\/cinci-deputa%C8%9Bi-europeni-ai-frac%C8%9Biunii-ppe-au-vizitat-republica-moldova-la-invita%C8%9Bia-lui-ilan-sor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their visits<\/a>: they allegedly pledged to support Shor in his political career, <a href=\"http:\/\/partidulsor.md\/news\/deputa%C8%9Bii-europeni-din-grupul-ppe-partidul-sor,-unica-forma%C8%9Biune-politica-ce-i%C8%99i-indepline%C8%99te-promisiunile-preelectorale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appreciated his projects in Orhei,<\/a>\u00a0even promised <a href=\"http:\/\/partidulsor.md\/news\/europarlamentar-catre-sor-va-vom-ajuta-in-solu%C8%9Bionarea-obiectiva-a-scandalului-bnacar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support in the investigation of the banking<\/a> frauds, <a href=\"http:\/\/partidulsor.md\/news\/europarlamentarul-din-ppe,-fulvio-martusciello,-%C8%99i-a-exprimat-neincrederea-fa%C8%9Ba-de-raportul-kroll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questioned the Kroll report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, just after the release of the EPP statement, the Shor party <a href=\"http:\/\/partidulsor.md\/news\/vicepre%C8%99edintele-partidului-%E2%80%9Esor%E2%80%9D,-marina-tauber-s-a-intalnit-cu-vicepre%C8%99edintele-parlamentului-european-livia-jaroka.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a report<\/a> on its Vice-President, Marina Tauber (Shor&#8217;s former business partner), meeting the Vice-President of the European Parliament, EPP-affiliated FIDESZ MEP, Livia Jaroka. The meeting was reportedly focused on &#8220;the role of women in politics&#8221; and the issues of &#8220;anti-semitism and xenophobia&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>EPP can issue statement after statement condemning Shor, but eventually, lobby groups will do their best with Shor&#8217;s money to make EPP MEPs or other figures available for meetings and discussions with the former banker or his associates.<\/p>\n<p>Ilan Shor has\u00a0other\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/radioorhei.info\/cine-sunt-cei-patru-europarlamentari-care-i-au-promis-lui-ilan-sor-spirijin-neconditionat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;supporters&#8221;<\/a> in the European Parliament: French MEP Jean-Luc Schaffhauser (who helped French Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen obtain a 9 million euros loan from the First Russian-Czech Bank), Italian MEPs Elisabetta\u00a0Gardini (VP of EPP, supporter of lifting personal sanctions against Russian officials), Lorenzo Fontana (Lega Nord). Schaffhauser, Fontana, and the above-mentioned Alberto Cirio visited the separatist entities in Eastern Ukraine, while Gardini failed to visit illegally-occupied Crimea. His sudden visits to the EP drew quite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/controversial-visit-guilty-1m-theft-ilan-shor-made-visit-european-parliament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some attention in the international and national press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/kroll-2-report-summary-reactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">central figure of the Kroll report on the &#8220;Billion Theft&#8221;<\/a>, Ilan Shor was sentenced to 7,5 years in prison for particularly large scams, money laundering.\u00a0Shor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/ilan-shors-case-defrauding-laundering-5-billion-lei-banca-de-economii-sent-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is accused<\/a>\u00a0of obtaining more than 5 billion lei from Banca de Economii in loans, from 4th to 25th of November 2014, the sum being confirmed by the\u00a0Kroll\u00a0report, and then laundering them through offshore companies. Ilan Shor has been under preventive arrest\u00a0since 22 June 2016 but then released in June 2017. 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