Elena Udrea requires the reduction of punishment

Former Minister of Tourism Elena Udrea asks in court the reduction of the punishment that remained to be executed with the period in which he was in detention in Costa Rica and Bulgaria.

Judicial sources stated on Tuesday, for Agerpres, that Udrea requests the reduction of the sentence that remained to be executed by 154 days, of which 83 days executed in the San Jose Penitentiary in Costa Rica and 71 days executed in the Belgorod detention center, all being executed on the basis of the same sentence.

According to the court portal, the file on the enforcement appeal was registered at the Prahova Court on March 20, the first deadline being set for April 8, at 10:00.

Elena Udrea is located in the Târgșor Penitentiary, where she was incarcerated in June 2022, after being extradited from Bulgaria.

The route of this process was quite complicated. Udrea was sued in 2015 and definitively convicted in June 2018, but she fled before the sentence was pronounced, being detected and incarcerated in Costa Rica.

Subsequently, in December 2018, the Constitutional Court decided that the law was not respected when the completions of 5 judges from this court were constituted. Consequently, the convictions in the « Gala Bute » file were suspended, Udrea was released from the arrest in Costa Rica and returned to Romania.

In April 2022, based on a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Supreme Court rejects an annulment appeal filed by Elena Udrea and confirms the sentence to six years in prison. Elena Udrea flees to Bulgaria, but is caught and sent to the country, being incarcerated in June 2022.

In this file, Elena Udrea is accused of coordinating a system by which she has received, with her science, amounts of money from representatives of some companies to guarantee the timely payment of the works financed by the Ministry of Tourism, which she was leading.

The investigators say that the amounts obtained have entered either directly into the patrimony of Elena Udrea (in cash or by paying goods and services), or of the Bucharest Organization of the PDL or of the former head of the Romanian Boxing Federation, Rudel Obreja.

Udrea is also accused of leaving officials from the Ministry of Tourism to violate their duties on the occasion of the purchase of advertising services at the gala where Lucian Bute was boxing.

The damage imputed Elena Udrea amounts to 3 million euros.