Former PSD MP Christian Rizea, who fled from Romania to Chisinau after being convicted of corruption, will not be granted political asylum in the Republic of Moldova, according to the final decision of the Supreme Court in Chisinau, writes Ziarul de Gardă.

Cristian Rizea, subject to international persecution, who was stripped of Moldovan citizenship by Ihor Dodon in November 2020 and subsequently rejected his request for political asylum, lost the case against the President of the Republic of Moldova, in which he requested the annulment of the decree applied when the request for political asylum was rejected . The decision was made by the Supreme Court of Justice, reports Ziarul de Gardà.

The Supreme Court of Justice found Christian Rizea’s appeal against the decisions made by the earlier courts to be inadmissible, and the decision is not subject to appeal.

Former PSD MP Christian Rizea was finally sentenced in 2019 to 4 years and 8 months in prison with execution for abuse of influence, money laundering and influencing statements, he fled to the Republic of Moldova.

It will be recalled that in November 2020, the former president of the Republic of Moldova, Ihor Dodon, deprived Christian Rizea of ​​his citizenship. ​Dodon claimed that he would not grant Moldovan citizenship to the former SDP deputy, but would deprive him and extradite him to Romania. On the same day, the police announced that Rize was detained and questioned in Chisinau, and on November 4, the Romanian Ministry of Justice announced that it had sent a request to the authorities of the Republic of Moldova to extradite former deputy Cristian Rize. . On November 6, 2020, the Chisinau court issued a warrant for the arrest of former PSD deputy Christian Rizea. In February 2021, Cristian Rizea was released on the grounds that the maximum term of a person in custody in the Republic of Moldova before extradition had expired.

What was reported by the Ministry of Justice of Romania about bringing Rize to Romania

The Ministry of Justice transmitted in December 2022, at the request of HotNews.ro:

• “Cristian Rizea: He is being prosecuted internationally for serving a sentence of 4 years and 8 months for influence peddling, money laundering and influencing statements, for which he was convicted on 7 December 2017 by the Supreme Court.
• After his stay in the Republic of Moldova, an extradition request was made and sent to the Moldovan authorities.
• So far, no decision has been made on the extradition request, the procedure is ongoing.”

Sent to court in the Republic of Moldova for false declarations when obtaining citizenship

On March 31, 2021, former PSD deputy Christian Rizea was sent to court by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Moldova for false statements made during the acquisition of citizenship of this country through the citizenship recognition procedure in 2017. prosecutors, during this procedure, in the completed form Rizey would indicate data that do not correspond to reality.

• “More precisely, the accused officially declared that the ban on obtaining citizenship of the Republic of Moldova will not be an incident for him. However, at the time, the defendant was well aware that he was under criminal investigation by the Romanian judicial authorities and that he was charged with influence peddling, money laundering and influence peddling, a fact that would have prevented him from obtaining citizenship.
• That is why PCCOCS prosecutors sent the case against him to court,” said the press release of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Moldova, as quoted by descheide.md.

The cited publication stated that the ex-people’s deputy pleaded not guilty.

Christian Rizea published the book “Rizea’s Confessions”, in which he accuses several businessmen, politicians, journalists or service officers of being organized in criminal groups that “robbed Romania”.