The court postponed the ruling in the case of Elena Udrea, who asked for the reduction of the punishment in the “Gala Bute” file

Elena Udrea, sentenced to six years in prison for abuse of office and bribery in the “Gala Bute” file, requested the reduction of the punishment that remained to be executed with the period in which she was in detention in Costa Rica and Bulgaria, according to Agerpres.

UPDATE, 11.15: The Prahova Tribunal postponed for April 29, the pronouncement in the case of the request to reduce the prison sentence made by Elena Udrea, sends Europa FM.

Initial news: According to the sources quoted by Agerpres, the former Minister of Tourism demanded the reduction of the punishment that remained to be executed by a number of 154 days, of which 83 days executed in the San Jose Penitentiary in Costa Rica and 71 days executed in the Belgorod Retention Center, all being executed on the basis of the same sentence.

According to the court portal, the file on the enforcement appeal was registered at the Prahova Court on March 20, the first deadline being set for Tuesday, April 8, at 10:00.

Elena Udrea is located in the Târgșor Penitentiary, where she was incarcerated in June 2022, after being extradited from Bulgaria.

Elena Udrea ran before the sentence ruling

The route of this process was quite complicated. Udrea was sued in 2015 and definitively convicted in June 2018, but she fled before the sentence was pronounced, being detected and incarcerated in Costa Rica.

Subsequently, in December 2018, the Constitutional Court decided that the law was not respected when the completions of 5 judges from this court were constituted.

Consequently, the convictions in the “Gala Bute” file were suspended, Udrea was released from the arrest in Costa Rica and returned to Romania.

In April 2022, based on a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by Elena Udrea and confirmed the sentence to six years in prison.

Elena Udrea fled to Bulgaria, but she was caught and sent to the country, being incarcerated in June 2022.

Injury of 3 million euros

In this file, Elena Udrea was accused of coordinating a system by which she received, with her science, amounts of money from representatives of some companies to guarantee the timely payment of the works financed by the Ministry of Tourism, which she was running.

The investigators said that the amounts obtained entered either directly into the patrimony of Elena Udrea (in cash or by paying some goods and services), or of the Bucharest Organization of the PDL or of the former head of the Romanian Boxing Federation, Rudel Obreja.

Udrea was also accused of leaving officials from the Ministry of Tourism to violate their duties on the occasion of the purchase of advertising services at the gala where Lucian Bute was boxing.

The damage imputed Elena Udrea amounts to 3 million euros.