The doctor who killed his ex-lover, sentenced to life in Hungary, will be transferred to Romania to serve his sentence

Doctor Dan Stamatiu, aged 62, originally from Oradea, sentenced to life imprisonment in Hungary, will be transferred to a penitentiary in Romania, where he will serve his sentence received from a Hungarian court, after his he killed his ex-mistress and wounded her husband, Bihoreanul and BihorOnline report.

The decision was taken on Tuesday by the Oradea Court of Appeal, which admitted a request to this effect made by the Hungarian judicial authorities.

“Orders the recognition and enforcement of the criminal sentence of March 28, 2022 pronounced by the Court of Nyíregyháza (…), definitive by the judgment pronounced by the Debrecen Court of Appeal (…) by which the convicted person Stamatiu Dan was sentenced to life imprisonment for committing the crime of qualified murder (…) and attempted crime of qualified murder”, the Court’s decision states.

Doctor Stamatiu was investigated after he fatally shot his ex-mistress and seriously injured her husband in the summer of 2016. After seven years, he was definitively sentenced, by the Court of Appeal in Debrețin, to life imprisonment.

“The court found that the crimes were committed for nefarious reasons. The defendant could not process even 2 years after breaking up with the victim the fact that he was abandoned, and his actions were driven by the desire for revenge. His intention was to suppress the life of the victims. As an aggravating circumstance, the fact that two children were left orphaned by their mother and that their father is limited in their care due to the injuries suffered is noted. The life sentence applied to the defendant is proportional to the crime, sufficient to achieve the goals of the punishment and proportional to the seriousness of the act and the danger the defendant presents to society”, it is mentioned on the portal of the Debreţin Court of Appeal.

The doctor cannot be released on parole until he has served a period of 30 years of his sentence, and after that he is prohibited from entering the territory of Hungary for another 10 years.

Shot him in the face with the two twin girls

In 2016, doctor Dan Stamatiu was head of the Pneumology Department of a hospital in Hungary. The man bought a gun on the black market and went to the house where his ex-mistress, Valéria, 40, a sales agent at a pharmaceutical company, whom he had been harassing for 2 years, and her husband lived, László, 49, construction contractor.

He shot them both in the face with the couple’s two 7-year-old twins. The woman died and her husband was seriously injured.

The woman really wanted a divorce in 2013, but changed her mind and decided to stay with her husband, and to convince her, Stamatiu continued to look for her either in person, on the phone or through messages, but without success.

In order to convince her to resume the relationship with him, doctor Stamatiu continued to look for the woman either in person, on the phone or through e-mail messages, but without success.

The doctor, convicted in Romania for arms smuggling

On the day of the commission of the acts, Stamatiu crossed the border, being caught after 24 hours in Cluj, where he was finally sentenced to 3 years and 4 months of detention, for qualified smuggling of weapons and non-compliance with the weapons and ammunition regime.

The doctor told a judge at the Cluj Court of Appeal that he came to Romania to take his own life, according to EVZ.

“My intention was to get home and kill myself, but the police were faster. I still had two issues to deal with and I also wrote a farewell letter.”

The doctor claimed before the Cluj magistrate that he spared the two children of his ex-mistress because he felt sorry for them.

In September 2019, he was released and handed over to the Hungarian authorities. (photo source Dreamstime)