CHISINAU - A Moldovan court sentenced businessman Ilan Shor to seven and a half years in prison on Wednesday for his role in a $1 billion banking scandal that nearly bankrupted the tiny former Soviet republic two years ago.
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Out of the billion stolen from the Moldovan banking system, 150,000 dollars went to the Maldives. Ilan Shor sent this sum to a beautiful island in the Indian Ocean where he flew after the theft was completed. Probably tired...
Moldovan government still failing to meet EU conditions on voting system and crackdown on corruption, says EU.
Moldova has been warned that €100m (£87m) of EU funds will remain blocked until the government rethinks a law on the voting system...
