Former deputy Cristian Rizea, finally convicted by the Bucharest court for corruption, was extradited to Romania on Thursday evening, tv8.md reports.

As reported in the General Inspectorate for Migration of the Republic of Moldova, Rizea was recognized as an undesirable person for a period of 15 years.

According to legal procedures, he was escorted out of the national territory by special IGM personnel.

“We remind you that recognition of a foreigner as an undesirable person is an insurance measure intended for a foreigner who has carried out, is carrying out, or for whom there are serious indications that he intends to carry out activities that may threaten national security or public order,” the press release states. IGM releases.

Romanian police say Rizea has been captured and will be taken to a penitentiary.

“This evening, the authorities of the Republic of Moldova asked the Romanian police to take control of a 54-year-old man, against whom the Bucharest Court issued a warrant for execution of the sentence in custody. He was detained with the support of the border police and will be placed in a penitentiary,” said the press release of the Romanian police.

In early March, former PSD MP Cristian Rizea, who fled Romania to Chisinau after being convicted of corruption, was denied political asylum in the Republic of Moldova by a final decision of the Supreme Court in Chisinau. writes The Guard newspaper.

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”.

Briefly about the case:

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 give 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 information that does not correspond to reality.

• “More precisely, the accused officially declared that the ban on obtaining the 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.

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