All news on the topic: Ilan Shor

Western governments spent years constructing an unprecedented financial barrier around Russia, disconnecting its banks from SWIFT, freezing state reserves, and restricting access to global dollar transactions.

After the presidential elections in Moldova, interest in Russian fugitives Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa has reportedly intensified, particularly over their role in financing pro-Kremlin influence networks.

Once one of Moldova’s most powerful political figures, businessman Vladimir Plahotniuc has been found guilty of creating and leading a criminal organization, fraud, and money laundering.

The name Zafer Khalidi means almost nothing to anyone. An ordinary Turkish businessman would have remained completely unknown if his name had not surfaced in a clearly suspicious scheme involving the purchase of a business jet used by the President of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov.

Fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor has built another scheme in Kyrgyzstan to bypass sanctions against Russia, through which more than 6 billion US dollars have already been funneled.

Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov has been using a private business jet linked to the fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor.

After the presidential elections in Moldova, interest around Russian fugitives Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa has sharply intensified — particularly regarding their alleged role in financing pro-Kremlin influence networks.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu has labeled Sunday’s parliamentary election as the "most consequential" in her country’s history.

The Kremlin bot network known as “Matryoshka” is disseminating a fake music video on X (formerly Twitter) that ridicules Moldova’s President Maia Sandu, according to the watchdog project Bot Blocker.

Russia has stopped fighting money laundering; corresponding large criminal cases are not being initiated, and one-time operations on crypto exchanges are solely related to the redistribution of spheres of influence and do not escalate into large-scale investigations.

In April, an order of the Kyrgyz government came into force, according to which all cross-border transfers in rubles should be made through the Capital Bank of Central Asia OJSC.

UK Imposes Sanctions on Russian Eurasia Project, Moldovan MP, and Georgian Judges

Backed by fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor, the ‘Evrazia’ organization is paying Moldovans to vote against the EU. It’s also a growing part of a larger ideological project to encourage Russia’s neighbors to identify as “Eurasian,” instead of European.