The moment when Paul of Romania was picked up by the police from the luxury resort in Malta, where he was on vacation (VIDEO)

The moment when Paul of Romania was picked up by the police from the luxury resort in Malta, where he was on vacation (VIDEO)
The moment when Paul of Romania was picked up by the police from the luxury resort in Malta, where he was on vacation (VIDEO)
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Paul Phillipe of Romania, one of the famous fugitives from our country, was caught yesterday in Malta, where he had gone after being released on bail by a court in France. He was in a resort, on vacation, from where he was picked up by the police. He had been on the run for almost four years from Romania, where he was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison.

The European arrest warrant against him was still active, even though France three weeks ago decided to refuse his extradition. The Romanian police collaborated with the Maltese police and picked him up right from the resort where he was staying.

The head of the Romanian Police was asked, on Monday, in a press conference, how Paul Phillipe of Romania was captured. “There was an exchange of information with the Malta Police. Following the information provided by the Romanian police, the person you mentioned was located in a resort. He was later detained and will be referred to the court in Malta. The Romanian police located him and sent information in real time to the colleges in Malta”, said Benone-Marian Matei. He added that Paul Phillipe did not resist.

The Secretary of State in the Ministry of Interior, Bogdan Despescu, added: “I would like to make it clear to you that every time I have communicated with the partners in the states where I have located such persons. After the location, each agency, each institution enters its own procedure and, of course, follows the procedure based on the courts and they will order measures accordingly. Immediately after a decision, the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will take over the person. Since the beginning of the year, 283 people have been brought to Romania to serve the sentence established by the courts”, stated Bogdan Despescu.

On April 6, France refused to extradite Paul to Romania, and the decision is final. The French court rejected the surrender citing the illegal composition of the court panel in Romania, more precisely the fact that one of the judges would not have taken the oath when taking office, the Minister of Justice, Alina Gorghiu, said.

At the time, Gorghiu claimed that the French court had obviously exceeded its powers assigned by the JAI framework decision 2002/584 regarding the European arrest warrant. The case prosecutor filed an appeal, but did not justify the appeal within the deadline, so he was denied the deadline, and the decision of the first instance remained final.

The Minister of Justice Alina Gorghiu declared, on Thursday, about the extradition of Paul of Romania that she still has no answer from the French counterpart regarding his situation, whose surrender was definitively rejected by the French justice due to a procedural flaw.

Paul Philipe Al Romania was the subject of a European arrest warrant issued on December 18, 2020, one day after he was definitively sentenced in Romania to three years and four months in prison with execution in the case of the illegal retrocession of the Royal Farm in Băneasa. In this case, 18 people were convicted, including Israeli businessmen Tal Silberstein and Beny Steinmetz, and the damage to the state was estimated by the prosecutors at 145 million euros. He was provisionally arrested on June 27, 2022, in France, in order to execute the European arrest warrant issued by the Romanian judicial authorities, based on the final judgment of conviction.

Paul Philippe, with French, British and Romanian citizenship, was never recognized as a member of the royal family by his uncle Mihai, the last king of Romania, who died in 2017.

Publisher: GM

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