Ilan Shor: 'We never give money to people to vote for us'

Ilan Shor is a fugitive oligarch and convicted criminal - now living in Moscow - who's accused of being the mastermind behind a pro-Russian vote-buying and vote-influencing scheme in Moldova. He is opposed to Moldova joining the European Union and wants to see the country's pro-Western president - Maia Sandu - defeated in a run-off election next month. Speaking to Newshour's Tim Franks he responds to charges of paying people to turn up at anti-EU rallies and vote against President Sandu and her policies.

(Photo: Ilan Shor at the opening of a store of the Moldovan trading house 'Eurasia' in Moscow, Russia, 17 September 2024. Credit: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)