Irina Lozovan
Moldovan politician
Irina Lozovan (born 27 December 1983) is a Moldovan politician. She was a member of the Parliament of Moldova from 2019 to 2025. Originally a member of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM), she joined the Revival Party, affiliated to Moldovan fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor, in 2023.
On 31 March 2025, Lozovan was sentenced to six years in prison for knowingly accepting funding for a political party from Shor's criminal group. She and her husband, sentenced at the same time as her to five years for complicity, escaped to Moldova's Russian-backed unrecognized breakaway region of Transnistria to avoid justice. She was later sanctioned by the European Union (EU) on 15 July, the Moldovan authorities on 25 July, Switzerland on 12 August and Canada on 28 August.
Biography
Early life and education
Irina Mihail Lozovan was born on 27 December 1983 in the town of Lipcani, in the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Moldova). She studied at the Gheorghe Asachi Pedagogical College (now the Gheorghe Asachi College) of Lipcani from 1999 to 2001 and at the Alecu Russo State University of Bălți from 2001 to 2007.
Political career
Lozovan joined the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) in 2014. She was councillor of Ocnița District and of the town of Otaci, and became a member of the Parliament of Moldova for the PSRM in 2019.
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