Doctor Dan Tesloyanu, accused in the case of repeated use of pacemakers, remains in custody, the Bucharest Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday, News.ro reported. The mandate was extended until May 18.

“Accepts the appeal submitted by the prosecutor’s office to the Bucharest Court against the conclusion dated 04/13/2023 (…) partially cancels the conclusion dated 04/13/2023 and, deciding: (…) accepts the proposal to extend the preventive arrest of the defendant Teslayanu Nikola Dan, formulated by the Prosecutor’s Office at the Bucharest Court”, – such a decision was made by the magistrates of the Bucharest Court of Appeal on Tuesday.

Thus, the judges decided to extend the preventive measure chosen for the defendant Teslayan Dan for 30 days, from 04/19/2023 to 05/18/2023 inclusive.

The decision of the magistrates is final.

Read about this case:

• Doctors are suspected of taking cardiac devices from the dead and fitting them to patients – sources / Investigations in three countries / Reaction of the Ministry of Health
• More than 170 patients allegedly received heart devices from the dead – sources / Details of the prosecutor’s investigation against doctors from Iasi and Brasov
• Card file of heart devices removed from corpses: the doctor was detained. Shocking details of the investigation
• The estate of Dan Teslayanu, a doctor arrested in the case of medical devices seized from the deceased
• Doctor Dan Tesloyana, who is accused of reusing pacemakers taken from corpses, was taken into custody
• The lawyer of the doctor who implanted heart devices in the dead: No one says that they saved lives
• How the prosecutor’s office got into the business of heart machines recycled from the dead
• Testimony of a patient who was operated on 7 times by Doctor Tesloyanu, who believes that she had a pacemaker from the dead in her chest
• The former head of a large hospital in Bucharest on the case of reused pacemakers: This is an insult to corpses
• Why is it so difficult to get a cardiac device in Romania when you need it? Flaws in the system that made the Yassa case possible
• “The main culprit is the hospital. That man was not doing what he did at home, in his garage.” Interview with the President of the College of Doctors about the case of heart devices recycled from the dead
• A doctor who implanted heart machines in the dead allegedly forged the consent of patients
• How are “gods” born in hospitals? Some explanations of how the Iasi case is possible
• Why the reuse of cardiac devices was legal for many years, but is no longer justified today. Some things are less clear after the Yassa incident
• Heart devices transplanted into the dead: two other doctors and a former head of the hospital are being prosecuted / Prosecutors have brought charges
• In September 2022, the Medicines Agency fined a hospital in Iasi that reused heart machines from cadavers for devices without provenance documents
• The head of the Ministry of Health, taken under judicial control / Charges brought by the prosecutor’s office
• Pacemakers from the dead. Two resident doctors were taken under judicial control / Accusations of the prosecutor’s office