Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz was arrested yesterday at Athens airport on a warrant issued in Romania the place he has been convicted on land fraud. Steinmetz has been launched from detention however is prohibited from leaving Greece. “Reuters” experiences that the businessman was arrested final evening a number of hours after touchdown in his non-public jet at Athens worldwide airport.
Steinmetz’s consultant stated, “The Greek authorized system has already dominated lastly and irreversibly towards extraditing Steinmetz to Romania. Mr. Steinmetz has been launched till the difficulty is formally organized.”
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Steinmetz’s legal professional Stavros Togias stated, “It’s unprecedented for the rule of legislation in Greece, or another revered nation, for such an administrative act to overturn a call of the Greek judiciary, which had definitively and irrevocably dominated towards his extradition to Romania, recognizing his proper to journey freely.”
Steinmetz was arrested a yr in the past additionally on a warrant issued towards him by the Romanian authorities. The Greek court docket of appeals in Athens dominated that his proper to a good trial had been violated in Romania and he was launched. Steinmetz’s consultant additionally stated, “The court docket acknowledged the danger that Steinmetz can be uncovered to discriminatory, inhuman and degrading therapy if he had been extradited, and located political motives behind his persecution. In consequence, Mr. Steinmetz obtained the proper to journey freely and with out restrictions, with out being subjected to habits that harms his dignity or defames his enterprise fame, as occurred throughout his arrest by the authorities on the worldwide airport in Athens final evening.”
His consultant added that six European international locations had rejected the authorized claims of the Romanian judicial system, in order that the arrest warrant issued by the Romanian authorities for his extradition was declared null and void by Interpol, Greece, Italy and Cyprus in addition to different companions within the course of, whose arrest warrants weren’t carried out in France, Belgium and Malta.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on October 14, 2024.
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