Romanian Prosecutor Handling Hayssam Case Dismissed From Organized Crime Dept

Romanian prosecutor Ciprian Nastasiu was dismissed Thursday from his position with the general department for organized crime and terrorism and is to return to the prosecutors’ office with the Court of Appeals in Timisoara, western Romania.

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Romania’s prosecutor general Codruta Kovesi had proposed the dismissal of Nastasiu following an irrevocable decision of the High Court of Justice in a trial where the organized crime prosecutor had appealed a disciplinary sanction received last year.

Under Romanian law, prosecutors of the general department for organized crime and terrorism are required to have clean records.

Late March 2007, Nastasiu was sanctioned for the release from custody on medical grounds of terror suspect Omar Hayssam, who afterward fled the country and hasn’t been caught since.

In 2007, a Romanian court found Hayssam guilty of masterminding the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005, and sentenced him in absentia to 20 years in prison.

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