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Justice Minister Tudorel Toader has just announced that next month he will meet his Serbian counterpart and, besides the discussions related to the legal instruments of cooperation, the Sebastian Ghita (who runway from the country to escape justice) case will also most probably be mentioned.
The Minister of Justice made this statement during a hearing at the Senate's Constitutional Commission, where he was asked whether the handover by the Serbian authorities to the Romanian ones of Sebastian Ghita will be done before or after the construction of the two new penitentiaries announced by the Ministry of Justice.
Toader stressed that the Minister of Justice should remain on the administrative side of justice and pointed out that the MJ and the national courts had fulfilled all their obligations related to the transfer of all the necessary and additional documents concerning the Sebastian Ghita case.
"Neither the Minister of Justice in Romania, nor the Romanian courts can intervene, can not generate measures to accelerate the settlement of the case by the competent court in Serbia. Even more so as we are discussing a convict currently being in a foreign country, another country with which we have the criminal legal instruments of cooperation in place. What we can do instead, and what, I can say that we have already done, the Ministry of Justice and the national courts, is to promptly respond to all the requests they have formulated," the Minister said.
Sebastian Ghita has several criminal cases pending with the courts and prosecutor's offices in Romania. He fled the country in December 2016, being caught in Serbia in April last year, wherefrom the Romanian authorities are trying to have him extradited.
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