Alina Bica, the former head of DIICOT, escapes prison. The Bucharest Court of Appeal withdrew the European arrest warrant on its behalf
Alina Bica Photo: Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
The Bucharest Court of Appeal decided, on Friday, by a definitive decision, the withdrawal of the European mandate for the execution of the prison sentence and the European arrest warrant that had been issued on behalf of Alina Bica, considering that it fully executed the sentence received in the file in which it was sentenced to 4 years in prison. The former head of DIICOT is located in Italy and has not made a prison day, according to news.ro and g4media.ro.
The Bucharest Court of Appeal made this decision after the EU Court of Justice has established that “a judicial authority cannot refuse the execution of a European arrest warrant and to take over the execution of the sentence without the consent of the state that issued this mandate.”
“Admits the challenge to the execution formulated by the delegated judge within the Office of Criminal Executions within the Bucharest Criminal Court of Appeal. Based on the decision of the Great Chamber of Justice of the European Union, pronounced on 04.09.2025, in case C-305/22, clarifies the extent and application of the criminal decision no. -The second criminal section, in the sense that the punishment established by the criminal sentence no.
Alina Bica, former chief prosecutor of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) offenses, was definitively sentenced to 4 years in prison, in 2019, in the case in which she was accused of the businessman Ovidiu Tender. Bica was then pursued.
In January 2022, the Ministry of Justice stated that Alina Bica was in Italy, mentioning that “the Italian court acknowledged the sentence pronounced in Romania and ordered the execution of the punishment in Italy, according to the Italian legislation.”
The former head of DIICOT did not make a day of imprisonment with execution in Italy, given that the punishment was suspended for legal clarifications regarding the crime for which it was convicted.
