According to News.ro sources, revolutionary and former PSD MP Dorin Lazar Major is to be flown to Romania on Monday from Rome. The 63-year-old Major was sentenced by the Brasov court to 5 years in prison for the crime of buying influence.

He will be brought under an escort made up of officers from the International Center for Police Cooperation of the Romanian police, the cited sources added.

Italian judicial authorities have ordered the arrest of a person wanted on the basis of a European arrest warrant issued by a Brasov court.

The former PSD MP was referred to court by the DNA Braşov prosecutor’s office for influence-peddling and complicity in influence-peddling after allegedly trying to obtain a favorable verdict in another case in which he had already been sentenced to seven years in prison for blackmail. In April, Major was extradited from Dubai, where he fled in 2013 and is currently in prison.

Dorin Lazar Major was extradited from Dubai on 21 April 2016 after an arrest warrant was issued in absentia in his name, he was taken to Romania and imprisoned, initially in Brasov police custody.

Major was finally sentenced in November 2013 by the Mures Court of Appeal to seven years in prison with execution for blackmail in the “Romexterra” case. Thus, Dorin Lazar Maior, Ovidiu Tizion and Florina Aprophirei were sent to court in In 2006 DNA Brasov prosecutors, being accused of blackmailing two Brasov businessmen, including the former deputy director of Romexterra Bank Brasov Mihai Macepiuk, for the illegal way of providing loans in this bank. allegedly threatened two businessmen that he would deliver them. if he did not receive a million lei from each.

In addition, the Sibiu court issued a warrant for the execution of a prison sentence for the offense of insult. Major is accused of threatening to kill a representative of a public institution in Brasov County on April 6, 2012. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.

On December 14, 2015, the international investigation was continued on the basis of a preventive arrest warrant issued by the Court of Appeal of Brasov, for the commission of crimes related to influence buying, in the sense that he supported the man in criminal activities, with the help of which he has since pursued buying influence over some of the judges who tried the case in which he was convicted, the IGPR press release also said.

At the same time, the Brasov court issued a new warrant for the execution of the sentence against Dorin Lazar Maior for the crime of tax evasion, who was sentenced to six years in prison.

In the period from July 2007 to April 2008, Dorin Lazar Major, being the administrator of a commercial company in Brasov, evaded paying taxes to the state, the damage caused amounted to almost 470,000 lei.

​