The extradition of a Romanian student accused by the FBI of sending hundreds of bomb threats to the US, rejected by the Bucharest Court of Appeal

The Bucharest Court of Appeal rejected on Tuesday the request of the American authorities to extradite a 17 -year -old Romanian student, accused of sending hundreds of threats with bomb institutions across the ocean and of manipulating minor girls to engage in acts of extreme violence, sexual and self -help, Agerpres informs.

“(…) rejects the request for extradition formulated by the judicial authorities in the United States of America regarding the Romanian citizen Ila revokes the measure of house arrest against the defendant ILA on the basis of art. 52 paragraph 7 of Law no. detained, provisionally arrested, respectively arrested at home from 21.01.2025 to day.

In December 2024, the Romanian adolescent was given international prosecution, based on an arrest warrant issued by a judge in the South District of New York, for committing several crimes: conspiracy to commit crimes against the US, sexual exploitation of a minor, receiving and distributing infantile pornography interstate, threat to the use of weapons of mass destruction, threat with acts of terrorism that exceed national borders.

According to the documents from the file, starting in September 2023, the Federal Investigation Bureau and other law enforcement bodies and abroad have investigated a global network of persons, including minors, who carried out criminal activities through certain online groups.

Among the objectives declared publicly by these groups are the collapse of the current world order and the destruction of civilized society, by corruption and exploitation of young people in the world.

The American judicial authorities claim that the Romanian student is a member of such online criminal groups, which concern, manipulate and extort the victims to determine them to commit acts of violence, sexual and self -help.

Accused of sending threats with bomb to schools and synagogues

Thus, the Romanian student would have made the minor victims believe that they were in romantic relations with him, then guided them, among others, to produce and share explicit sex and to engage in acts of violence, including serious self-destruction and cruelty.

Sometimes, when a victim refused to provide explicit materials or commit violent acts, as asked, the Romanian teenager sent threats to the US institutions, indicating as a perpetrator who did not listen.

These threats have included at least several hundred false bomb threats to public institutions (synagogues, school districts, airports, hospitals and government buildings) located in the United States, including in New York, as well as in several other countries, including the United Kingdom. After receiving the threats, the public institutions were temporarily evacuated or closed, causing significant disturbances, panic and financial losses.

In addition, the law enforcement was moving to the residence of the minor victim referred to or which was otherwise associated with the threat with bomb, when, in fact, the threats had been sent by the Romanian student.

The American authorities claim that, around June 2023 until around September 2023, the student communicated through an online messaging platform with a minor victim in Westchester County, New York. The teenager made the girl believe that she was in a sentimental relationship with him and asked him to tattoo his pseudonym and send him nude photos.

Around September 2023, the adolescent sent false bomb threats to numerous schools and school districts from or around Westchester County, where he believed he was living the one, and asked the recipients to contact the sender at an IP address associated with his victim. For example, around September 20, 2023, the student sent the following bomb threat to several school districts: “I placed several bombs in all schools in your school districts. The bombs will explode in a few hours. Contact me, my IP address is: (victim address).”

Around April 2024 until around June 2024, while in Romania, he communicated through an online messaging platform with another victim in Oklahoma or in the surroundings. The student told the victim that she was in love with her and was her friend. In April 2024 or around this date, he asked the girl to tattoo his pseudonym and send him nude photos. On April 27, 2024, he threatened her that, if he did not do what he asked, he will send an e-mail, to the school where he learned the girl, with nude photos.

Heard by Romanian and American authorities, the student acknowledged the facts retained in his task, respectively that he learned how to make telephone calls through various internet applications (including applications used to send numerous bomb threats) and that he has sent, since December 2022, over 450 threats with bomb and/or threatening to commit a school.

During the investigation, the FBI agents heard six victims whom the Romanian student manipulated and extorted to engage in acts of extreme violence, sexual exploitation and self-prophesaling.