DNA welcomes Saturday’s final decision by Italian authorities to extradite former Neamts County Council Chairman Ionel Arsen to Romania, saying the decision supports law enforcement efforts and enforcement of court sentences. The head of the DNA, Marius Voyniag, states that this decision “creates conditions for the restoration of citizens’ trust in a functional and impartial judicial system.”

“In the context of the final decision of the Italian authorities to extradite to Romania the former chairman of the Neamts District Council to serve the sentence of deprivation of liberty handed down by the national courts, the National Anti-Corruption Directorate recognizes that this decision was taken in support of law enforcement agencies and the execution of court sentences,” DNA said in a statement. .

According to DNA, “Citizens’ trust in justice depends on the ability of institutions to demonstrate beyond doubt that no one is above the law.”

“Today’s decision of the Court of Cassation in Italy confirms the fact that the efforts of the prosecutors of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate to investigate and prove acts of corruption, the work of judges to analyze and make decisions on this evidence, and also because the determination of the Ministry of Justice to bring convicted persons to the country to serve their sentences creates conditions for the restoration of citizens’ trust in a functional and impartial judicial system,” said the NABU Prosecutor General. Marius Voynyag.