The 17 -year -old Bucharest student researched by the FBI for terrorism will not be extradited. The Romanian judges decided to release him
The Romanian magistrates rejected on Tuesday the request for extradition in the USA of a 17 -year -old teenager, investigated by the FBI for terrorism.
The judges rejected the teen's extradition and released him. Photo archive
On Tuesday, May 13, the Bucharest Court of Appeal rejected an extradition request made by the American authorities for a 17 -year -old student from Bucharest, which for two years launched several false bomb threats to some overseas institutions. Moreover, it was released.
“Dismisses the request for extradition made 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. provisionally arrested, respectively arrested at home from 21.01.2025 to day. It is shown in the decision of the Romanian court.
What accusations are brought to the 17 -year -old student
The 17 -year -old teenager was pursued in December 2024, after his name was issued an arrest warrant for several offenses: conspiracy to commit crimes against the US, sexual exploitation of a minor, receiving and distributing child pornography, threats of extortation, threatening interstate communications The threat with acts of terrorism that exceed national borders, notes Agerpres.
The FBI accuses the 17-year-old student of being part of an international network that carry out criminal activities through certain online groups and aims to overturn the world order and to destroy civilized society, by corruption and exploitation of young people in the world.
According to Romanian investigators, the Romanian student is a member of such online criminal groups, which aim, manipulate and extort victims to determine them to commit acts of violence, sexual and self -help exploitation. He would have convinced me many minor victims to produce and share explicit sexual content and 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.
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-prophesion, notes the same source.
