Romanian Prosecutor Nastasiu Asks Court To Repeal His Dismissal

Romanian prosecutor Ciprian Nastasiu asked the Bucharest Court of Appeals Thursday to suspend the order of the prosecutor general, which dismissed him last week from his position with the general department for organized crime and terrorism (DIICOT).

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Nastasiu asked the court to annul his dismissal, but until this is solved he solicitated the Court to suspend the order of the prosecutor general.

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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