Elena Udrea again requests conditional release, after the court admitted to decrease almost eight months of the punishment
Elena Udrea submitted a request for conditional release on Tuesday, after the court approved the appeal and decided to decrease almost eight months of the sentence of 6 years in prison.
Elena Udrea filed a request for conditional release on Tuesday. Photo: Archive
Elena Udrea, former Minister of Tourism, who is atoning in the Târgşor Penitentiary the sentence of 6 years in prison received in the “Gala Bute” file, requested the conditional release, her request being registered at the Ploieşti Court on Tuesday, June 10.
The magistrates have established that the first trial deadline on June 19, notes Agerpres.
We remind you that at the end of May, the Prahova Court admitted the enforcement appeal made by Elena Udrea and ordered the deduction from the six-year prison sentence that she received in the Gala Bute file of a cumulative period of about eight months.
“It deduces from the sentence of 6 years imprisonment, applied by the criminal sentence no. 181 from 28.03.2017 pronounced by the High Court of Cassation and Justice – the criminal section, the period from 10.02.2015 on 25.02.2015, representing the period in which the petitioner was retained, arrested preventively The Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the National Anticorruption Directorate, the period from 25.02.2015 on 16.06.2015, representing the period in which the petitioner was arrested and arrested at home in Romania, the period from 03.10.2018 on 24.12.2018, representing the period in which the period was arrested in the Republic of Costa Rica 07.04.2022 on 16.06.2022, representing the period in which it was arrested in Bulgaria, as well as the period actually executed in Romania respectively from 16.06.2022 to day ”, It is shown in the minute of the court's decision.
However, the decision is not final and was challenged by Mrs. Ploieşti on form of form, not by the background, following this appeal to be judged on June 30, at the Ploiesti Court of Appeal.
Elena Udrea executes a sentence deprived of liberty in the Târgșor Penitentiary, where she was incarcerated in June 2022, following the extradition in Bulgaria.
Its process had a complicated path. Initially, Udrea was sued in 2015 and definitively convicted in June 2018, but shortly before the sentence was pronounced, fled from the country and was subsequently located in Costa Rica, where it was detained.
In December 2018, the Constitutional Court found that the formation of five judges from the High Court did not comply with the law, so that the decisions in the “Gala Bute” file were suspended, and Udrea was released from the arrest in Costa Rica and returned to Romania.
Then, in April 2022, the High Court of Cassation and Justice rejected the annulment appeal filed by Elena Udrea, confirming the sentence to six years in prison. It fled again, this time in Bulgaria, but was retained and extradited to Romania in June of the same year.
In the file “Gala Bute”, Elena Udrea is accused of coordinating a mechanism by which her close ones received significant amounts of money from private companies, in exchange for guaranteeing the work financed by the Ministry of Tourism, an institution that she was running at that time.
The investigators claim that some of the funds obtained came directly to the heritage of Elena Udrea, and the rest would have been directed to the PDL Bucharest organization or to the former president of the Romanian Box Federation, Rudel Obreja.
Also, Udrea is also accused of leaving the ministry employees to violate the law in the process of acquiring advertising services for the gala in which Lucian Bute was boxing.
The total estimated damage in this case amounts to 3 million euros.
