Steaua Owner Remanded Into Custody

The court decided the request to annul Becali’s arrest warrant had no merits and ordered Becali to pay 200 lei (EUR1-RON4.1379) in legal expenses.

 

The court decision is final and binding.

 

Becali, chairman and financer of Steaua Bucharest football club, was arrested for 29 days Friday morning along four of his bodyguards for kidnapping three alleged car thieves.

 

Becali was placed into custody along Catalin Zmarandescu, Stefan Dediu, Nicolae Dumitrascu and Dumitru Beciu.

 

A fifth defendant in the case, Marius Petrinel Geavela, will be investigated at large and is banned from leaving the country.