Dorin Lazar Major, who was supposed to be picked up by the Italian police on Monday, was admitted to a hospital in Rome due to health problems, court sources cited by Agerpres said.

His delivery will be postponed to a later date, as soon as the Italian doctors determine that his state of health will allow him to be transported by plane to Romania, the cited sources emphasize.

According to the information of the Romanian police, on October 2, an escort made up of officers of the International Center for Police Cooperation of the Romanian Police was supposed to pick up a 63-year-old man from Rome.

Former deputy and former leader of revolutionary associations, Dorin Lazar Maior, was convicted by the Brasov court for influence-peddling and complicity in this crime, at the time of his final conviction in another case.

Dorin Lazar Major was finally sentenced on November 11, 2013 to 7 years in prison for the crime of blackmail.

“Following the conviction by the first court and pending the final sentencing, the defendant fled the country to Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to avoid the prison sentence to which he was sentenced. Later, by contacting certain people, and through his wife, defendant Major acted to identify and contact certain influential persons in the judicial system, being prepared to pay large sums of money to obtain the reversal, by fraud, of the convict’s final conviction to prison,” said the DNA press release.