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MPs and justice campaigners have called for urgent reforms to the controversial European Arrest Warrant system after claiming it is being used by corrupt officials to target an innocent British resident.
They say the case of a London-based businessman who faces being extradited to Romania to face “unfounded” bribery corruption charges has highlighted serious flaws in the system.
Campaigners claim the case of Alexander Adamescu shows that unscrupulous foreign politicians can exploit the British justice system to pursue their own agenda.
Mr Adamescu, 38, was arrested last June and locked up in Wandsworth Prison for two nights before being released on bail pending a hearing into his case next year.
The Romanian authorities are demanding his extradition as part of a wider case against Mr Adamescu’s father Dan, a businessman and proprietor of the opposition newspaper Romania Libera, which has long been a thorn in the side of the Government.
But Mr Adamescu’s supporters say the case against both men has been fabricated by their enemies in the Romanian government.
They say it was no coincidence that the EAW for Alexander Adamescu was issued just days after he filed a request for arbitration by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes over claims that individuals in the Romanian government deliberately targeted and undermined his father’s business dealings in the country.
A high level report by a senior figure in British intelligence, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, says that Romania is seeking Alexander’s extradition and trial in an attempt to silence him and thwart the Adamescu family’s attempt to win millions of Euros in compensation from the authorities.
The report concludes: “There can be little doubt that Alexander Adamescu is being pursued because he is Dan Adamescu’s son, and the prosecution has been predicated on the desire to ‘decapitate’ the Adamescu family’s holdings and their influence.”
Under the current system British courts are not allowed to question the basis on which an EAW has been issued, no matter how spurious the evidence against the individual may appear to be.
Under the current system British courts are not allowed to question the basis on which an EAW has been issued, no matter how spurious the evidence against the individual may appear to be.
That means that Romanian prosecutors are likely to succeed in their request to obtain Alexander’s extradition when he appears before Westminster Magistrates Court in April next year.
Critics of the EAW say it forces the British police and criminal justice system to do “the dirty work” of unscrupulous regimes around the world by handing over individuals to face what is likely to be an unfair trial.
In June last year, ten days after being denounced on national television by Mr Ponta, Mr Adamescu Snr was arrested by anti-terrorism police, paraded on television and subsequently convicted to four years and four months in prison, following what his supporters described as a “show trial” lasting barely a week.
They claim a key witness was intimidated into giving evidence against 68-year-old Mr Adamescu Snr at the trial, last May.
With his conviction the attention of the Romanian authorities turned to Alexander, who was helping to run his father’s business interests from London, where he lives with his wife Adriana and their three young children.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/13/european-arrest-warrant-targeting-innocent-british-resident/
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They say the case of a London-based businessman who faces being extradited to Romania to face “unfounded” bribery corruption charges has highlighted serious flaws in the system.
Campaigners claim the case of Alexander Adamescu shows that unscrupulous foreign politicians can exploit the British justice system to pursue their own agenda.
Mr Adamescu, 38, was arrested last June and locked up in Wandsworth Prison for two nights before being released on bail pending a hearing into his case next year.
The Romanian authorities are demanding his extradition as part of a wider case against Mr Adamescu’s father Dan, a businessman and proprietor of the opposition newspaper Romania Libera, which has long been a thorn in the side of the Government.
But Mr Adamescu’s supporters say the case against both men has been fabricated by their enemies in the Romanian government.
They say it was no coincidence that the EAW for Alexander Adamescu was issued just days after he filed a request for arbitration by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes over claims that individuals in the Romanian government deliberately targeted and undermined his father’s business dealings in the country.
A high level report by a senior figure in British intelligence, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, says that Romania is seeking Alexander’s extradition and trial in an attempt to silence him and thwart the Adamescu family’s attempt to win millions of Euros in compensation from the authorities.
The report concludes: “There can be little doubt that Alexander Adamescu is being pursued because he is Dan Adamescu’s son, and the prosecution has been predicated on the desire to ‘decapitate’ the Adamescu family’s holdings and their influence.”
Under the current system British courts are not allowed to question the basis on which an EAW has been issued, no matter how spurious the evidence against the individual may appear to be.
Under the current system British courts are not allowed to question the basis on which an EAW has been issued, no matter how spurious the evidence against the individual may appear to be.
That means that Romanian prosecutors are likely to succeed in their request to obtain Alexander’s extradition when he appears before Westminster Magistrates Court in April next year.
Critics of the EAW say it forces the British police and criminal justice system to do “the dirty work” of unscrupulous regimes around the world by handing over individuals to face what is likely to be an unfair trial.
In June last year, ten days after being denounced on national television by Mr Ponta, Mr Adamescu Snr was arrested by anti-terrorism police, paraded on television and subsequently convicted to four years and four months in prison, following what his supporters described as a “show trial” lasting barely a week.
They claim a key witness was intimidated into giving evidence against 68-year-old Mr Adamescu Snr at the trial, last May.
With his conviction the attention of the Romanian authorities turned to Alexander, who was helping to run his father’s business interests from London, where he lives with his wife Adriana and their three young children.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/13/european-arrest-warrant-targeting-innocent-british-resident/
#getusoutasap
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