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Ministry of Justice says they received no notice on Ukraine’s refusal to extradite Malhaz Djaparidze

March 25, 2008
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The Ministry of Justice of Moldova (MJ) says they received no letter from Ukraine to announce about the refusal to extradite Malhaz Djaparidze. The criminal authority Malhaz of 44 years old was arrested in Herson, on February 13, by the Ukrainian law authorities.

“We received no letter saying about the refusal to extradite Malhaz Djaparidze from Ukraine. If we receive this, we will examine the text, after which we will comment and express the position of the Ministry”, MJ press service Head Anatol Semionov has said to BASA-press.

The Court of Appeal of Odessa decided to free Malhaz Djaparidze, on March 24, according to the press from Kiev. The instance would have set him free following a letter of the Ukrainian Minister of Justice referring to more European legislative acts. The letter says, according to the press, that Ukraine refused to extradite Malhaz to Moldova at the request of the Moldovan Mister of Justice.

After he was retained in Herson, the General Prosecutor’s Office announced they initiated the extradition procedure of Malhaz Djaparidze.

Malhaz Djaparidze disappeared, on July 18, 2007, from the prison-like camps, helped by two policemen. They accompanied Malhaz with their own car to a bath place in Durlesti, at the outskirts of Chisinau, the prosecutors say. Malhaz disappeared from there.

The criminal authority Malhaz Djaparidze was formerly convicted five times for theft, and sentenced in early august 2007, by the Court of Appeal to one and a half years imprisonment. The sentence was stated in the absence of Djaparidze. This case has reached the ECHR, which accepted the request submitted by the lawyers and decided to urgently examine it.

The criminal group Malhaz was broken some years ago, but some of its members still free, are very active. The group is suspected of committing more crimes in Moldova: burglaries, thefts, armed attacks, drugs keeping and others.// BASA-Press