Translated from Romanian
Life imprisonment. This risks in the United States a Romanian and two New Zealanders captured in Bucharest by DIICOT prosecutors and American federal agents.
The three are accused of being part of a dreaded overseas group , which allegedly set up drug, weapons and even assassinations in Romania.
In reply, the suspects insist that everything was caused by an American anti-drug agent and say that they would do anything not to be extradited.
The two New Zealanders were captured in November in Bucharest following a spectacular DIICOT operation. Arrest warrants had just been issued on their behalf by a Texas court.
Members of the Hells Angels club, the motorcyclists allegedly set up dirty business in Romania, but American anti-drug agents were also on their trail.
Prosecutors say they were planning to buy 400 kilograms of cocaine for New Zealand, as well as deliver the weapons of Serbian origin, including grenades, assault rifles, as well as ballistic protection equipment and armored vehicles.
Their partner would have been a Romanian, once leader of the Hells Angels in Romania, with whom – according to the American accusers – he would have arranged three murders. Accusation rejected by not only their defender, but also one of the three alleged targets.
Alexandru Enache, the suspects ‘ lawyer : “ There were only some meetings with a certain gentleman, who turned out to be the DEA agent from the USA. And they responded to some challenges. There was simply talk of drunkenness . “
Alleged victim: “They are terrible children and they fell into a trap of an FBI agent”
Alexandru Cazan : “ They are terrible children and they fell into a trap of an FBI agent who created a case to make a name for himself, in Texas, there. Every time they got drunk and what they were doing, he proposed to them: “let’s kill Cazan! ”.
However, US prosecutors do not drop the charges and want the three suspects handcuffed to the United States to stand trial.
It is not yet clear what will happen to the 12 Harley Davidson motorcycles seized by Romanian prosecutors with the arrest of the three suspects.
Romanian judges have already decided definitively that the suspects – the two New Zealanders and the Romanian citizen – should be extradited to the USA.
But the actual handover has been postponed for the time being.
The ECHR has procedures in place that suspects try to prevent, saying they will not enjoy a fair trial. And that’s because only for two of the three charges he faces life imprisonment.
