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Romanian Football Mogul Gigi Becali Arrested For Deprivation Of Freedom

Romanian football club Steaua owner Gigi Becali was placed under 29-day preventive arrest Friday morning in the case regarding the alleged kidnapping of three people who stole Becali’s car in January this year.
Romanian Football Mogul Gigi Becali Arrested For Deprivation Of Freedom
03 apr. 2009, 09:27, English

After a trial that lasted more than five hours, the judges of the Bucharest District 1 Court decided to uphold prosecutors’ request to place Becali and other four people under preventive arrest.
 
Soon after the court pronounced its verdict, Becali’s lawyer Gheorghe Mateut, as well as the defendants of Catalin Zmarandescu, Stefan Dediu, Nicolae Dumitrascu and Dumitru Beciu, appealed the ruling, while one of the culprits started to curse and air threats.
 
Mateut deemed the court’s ruling abusive and stressed that prosecutors presented irrelevant evidence to incriminate Becali, namely, phone conversations which, according to Mateut, fail to prove Becali’s involvement in the kidnapping.
 
Soon after the court’s ruling, Becali’s cronies started to encourage him and said all Romanians are on his side.
 
Six people were heard Thursday in connection with this case and Becali’s properties were thoroughly searched by police officers.
 
According to police officers investigating the case, in January this year, three people were dashed into the trunk of a car in the middle of the night, taken to a residence in Pipera, near Bucharest, and detained for nearly three hours for allegedly stealing Becali’s car, which he had left open and with keys in the ignition outside a bar.