Fugitive pro-Russia Moldovan businessman Ilan Shor, who is accused of "buying" voters to sway an election in the ex-Soviet state, has returned to his exile base in Israel, an Interpol official said on November 12. Viorel Tentiu said Shor had returned to Israel by air on November 8, but Israeli officials were unable to say where his flight had originated. "It's unknown where he went or where he returned from," Tentiu told state television. Tentiu had said Shor left Israel on November 6. He was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison by a Moldovan court in April over a $1 billion bank fraud.
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