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Old June 19th 16, 06:22 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Read the following court document:

- Mihai Tanjala vs. United States Attorney General -

http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opini.../201513276.pdf

Mihai Tanjala, a native and citizen of Romania, petitions this Court for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ dismissal of his appeal. The petition seeks review of the BIA’s dismissal of Mr. Tanjala’s appeal from the Immigration Judge’s denial of his untimely motion to reopen and reconsider a prior decision granting voluntary departure after he was notified that he was removable for committing a crime involving moral turpitude. Mr. Tanjala argues that his motion was timely filed and that we should remand to the BIA to reinstate his voluntary departure. He also asserts that he did not commit the crime that subjected him to removal and that he qualified for relief based on his political opinion and membership in a particular social group. Additionally, Mr. Tanjala argues that the IJ did not properly weigh the evidence. After careful review, we deny the petition for review.
We review the BIA’s denial of a motion to reconsider or a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion. See Calle v. U.S. Att’y Gen., 504 F.3d 1324, 1328 (11th Cir. 2007); Jiang v. U.S. Att’y Gen., 568 F.3d 1252, 1256 (11th Cir. 2009). Under this standard, “our review is limited to determining whether an exercise of administrative discretion occurred and whether it was arbitrary or capricious.” Montano Cisneros v. U.S. Att’y Gen., 514 F.3d 1224, 1226 (11th Cir. 2008). An IJ does not need to discuss every piece of evidence before him, but is required to consider the evidence submitted. See Tan v. U.S. Att’y Gen., 446 F.3d 1369, 1376 (11th Cir. 2006).
Generally, only one motion to reconsider is allowed, and it must be filed within 30 days of the entry of the removal order. See INA § 240(c)(6)(A), (B), 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(6)(A), (B). Additionally, subject to certain exceptions, a party may only file one motion to reopen removal proceedings, and that motion “shall be filed within 90 days of the date of entry of a final administrative order of removal.” See INA § 240(c)(7)(C)(i), 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(6)(C). There is no time limit, however, where the motion to reopen is to file for asylum and is based on changed country conditions, if such information was not available and would not have been known at the previous hearing. See INA 240(c)(7)(C)(ii), 8 U.S.C. 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii).
For several reasons, the BIA did not abuse its discretion in dismissing Mr. Tanjala’s appeal of the IJ’s denial of his motion to reopen and reconsider. First, the motion was untimely, as it was filed after the 30-day time period for motions to reconsider and after the 90-day period for motions to reopen. Second, Mr. Tanjala did not establish changed country conditions; he merely reiterated general facts about corruption in Romania.. The record indicates that the IJ considered the evidence submitted, and so we find unavailing Mr. Tanjala’s argument that the IJ did not properly weigh the evidence. Finally, Mr. Tanjala’s arguments on appeal are insufficient to warrant a remand to the BIA because those arguments were previously presented; therefore, the BIA’s decision was not arbitrary or capricious.
For the foregoing reasons, we deny the petition.

PETITION DENIED.







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Old June 19th 16, 06:28 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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"The Curious Case of Mihai Tanjala"

https://kingofromania.com/2016/06/07...mihai-tanjala/

Posted by SAM CEL ROMAN on JUNE 7, 2016
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Hey, does anyone remember the case of Mihail Boldea? Or Omar Hayssam? Oh, just me then? Fine.
It’s shocking just how many high-level criminals under investigation by the Romanian authorities are allowed to leave the country. No, they don’t crawl under border fences or use assumed names; they use their own passports, which the vaunted DNA never bothers to confiscate.
Today, I saw that another similar case just popped up on my radar, the mysterious adventures of one Mihai Tanjala.
Cayman In, Fugitive!

The Cayman Islands, a quasi-independent country known best for its role in offshore banking (Panama Papers style) were forced to arrestMihai Tanjala on their territory back in December 2015. Tanjala, who was convicted of corruption charges (in absentia) in Romania in 2011, will be extradited to Romania after now losing his habeas corpus appeal despite trying to bribe his way out of trouble:
During the original hearing in December last year, Tanjala, pleaded with the court not to send him back to Romania, claiming his life would be in danger. At one point during the hearing, he offered to serve out his sentence in the Cayman Islands and pay for the cost of his jail time.
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Tanjala had been living in the U.S. and seeking asylum prior to his arrival in Cayman. Court documents suggest he dropped his asylum application and paid US$50,000 to allow him to depart the country.
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He entered Cayman undetected after previously traveling through Cuba and the Bahamas. It was not until he tried to enter Jamaica that officials spotted his name on an Interpol red list and found there was an international warrant out for his arrest.
Wait, what? Woah, hold on a second here. Time to backtrack.
Mihai Tanjala was born in 1957. He later attended the military academy and then went on to study at the shadowy ASE school in Bucharest, the secret training school for spies. By the time of the the 1989 Revolution in Romania, Tanjala was a counter-intelligence officer in the army.
The 1989 Revolution then occurred and Ceausescu and his wife were shot on live television. Romanian courts then went into overdrive to dismantle the much-hated security organs of the Communist regime. Of course, Tanjala and his buddies had no desire to lose their “important” jobs so Tanjala then immediately used his connections to form a rebranded version of his old outfit nicknamed “Two and a Quarter” (based on its unit number) inside the Interior Ministry. Today, it’s officially known as the DGIPI. One Romanian analyst said that the DGIPI is “more powerful than the SRI” and another journalist said it is the “most controversial secret agency in Romania”.
Back when it was still known as “Two and a Quarter”, what was their first order of business? I’m sure you can guess. It was to crush the June 1990 protests and thus bring to a swift end the six-month revolution, crushing democracy forever in Romania.
Following up on this “success”, Tanjala then joined the PSDR (today’s PSD) and become a useless MP. With his secret agency connections and political power, he amassed a bunch of money illegally (especially with help from Valerian Simica, a Romanian fraudster living in the United States) and then moved his family to the United States at some point before 2008 (all we know is that Tanjala befriended Simica in 2003 in Chicago and the two later collaborated in shady business deals). Tanjala then had a corruption case filed against him in Romania in 2008, causing him to immediately flee to the United States. Details of this can be found here in Romanian, including the fact that he was ultimately convicted of defrauding the Romanian state of more than 100 million euros.
The Romanian article also casually mentions that he owned an airfield in America. A little digging reveals that he bought the Seminole Lake Gliderport in Florida, apparently a popular spot for celebrities. Selling price? A cool 2.6 million dollars. Nice, eh?
Following his conviction in 2011, Tanjala was put on Interpol’s “red list” for wanted fugitives. Why wasn’t he arrested in the United States? Wait, maybe the US and Romania don’t have an extradition treaty. Oh wait, they definitely do, to say nothing of existing extradition treaties between the United States and the European Union (and its member states, including Romania since 2007).
So somehow, some way, despite the fact that the guy’s entire family was openly living in Florida under their real names, and that Tanjala was the owner of at least one valuable asset (the airfield), he was never arrested. Originally he filed an asylum appeal in America but this was denied and even his appeal was denied (PDF). Then, under some mysterious circumstance, he spent $50,000 to be able to leave the United States “legally” and travel to Cuba.
Uh, what? There was no direct travel between the United States and Cuba prior to 2016. So who was Tanjala paying the 50k to and why did this allow him to avoid arrest? And where did Tanjala go after the United States? Because it definitely wasn’t Cuba.
Apparently a fan of warm weather, Tanjala somehow entered the Bahamas without a problem and then from there went to the Cayman Islands, where he was completely ignored. Then, to his complete and total surprise, Tanjala tried to go to Jamaica and the the police in Jamaica actually bothered to honor the Interpol fugitive warrant. Jamaica then sent him back to the Caymans, where he is now. There’s no telling why he was in the Cayman Islands but it was probably to get access to the money that he stole from the Romanian people.
The “best” part of all of this dirty story is that the only reason Tanjala was ever investigated and convicted of corruption in Romania was because of the testimony of two other criminals, Crinuta Dumitrean and Alina Bica. Dumitrean was the head of ANRP, the government agency which handles the privatization of Communist era government-owned property (which is the agency that Tanjala defrauded for a cool 100 million euros) and Bica was the head of DIICOT, the thieving idiots who are kinda, sorta in charge of stopping terrorism and organized crime.
Let’s review:
Prior to 1989, Tanjala is paid to ruin the lives of people who disagree with the government in Communist Romania.
Immediately following the revolution, Tanjala and his buddies form a secret police unit which plays an instrumental role in crushing democracy during the Mineriad of 1990.
Tanjala then joins a political party for fun and profit, mostly profit.
Tanjala goes to the United States in 2003 where he befriends another Romanian crook and ultimately goes into business with him.
All goes well until his fellow crooks snitch on Tanjala in 2008, causing him to flee Romania.
Tanjala hightails it to the United States where he lives a great life, flying around with celebrities at his airfield that he bought for more than 2 million dollars.
Tanjala is convicted in absentia and put on Interpol’s fugitive list.
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Old June 19th 16, 06:35 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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"Romanian Fugitive Fails in Extradition Appeal"

https://www.caymancompass.com/2016/0...dition-appeal/

founder of Romania’s secret police service will be sent home to face jail for corruption after his appeal against extradition from the Cayman Islands failed.

Mihai Tanjala, also a former politician and entrepreneur in the former Communist country, had been on the run since 2011, when he was sentenced to five years in prison over a fraudulent business deal.

He was caught in Cayman at the end of last year and, after a hearing in front of Chief Magistrate Nova Hall, he was ordered to be extradited back to Romania to serve out his sentence.

He filed a writ of habeas corpus, alleging wrongful imprisonment in connection with the extradition, the only legal avenue of appeal open to him. In a hearing last week, Tanjala repeated claims that he was innocent and suggested his prosecution in Romania had been politically motivated, in part, because of his links to the former Communist regime.

Justice Malcolm Swift dismissed those claims Friday. He said the matters raised by the defendant in his application were without foundation.

“I can find no causal link between the allegations of impropriety raised by the applicant and his prosecution/conviction. There is no credible evidence that the Romanian proceedings were conducted otherwise than in accordance with natural justice or were unfair or were political or that it would be unjust or oppressive to return the applicant to Romania to serve his sentence. The application is refused and the warrant of committal stands.”

During the original hearing in December last year, Tanjala, pleaded with the court not to send him back to Romania, claiming his life would be in danger.

At one point during the hearing, he offered to serve out his sentence in the Cayman Islands and pay for the cost of his jail time.

Tanjala had been living in the U.S. and seeking asylum prior to his arrival in Cayman. Court documents suggest he dropped his asylum application and paid US$50,000 to allow him to depart the country.

He entered Cayman undetected after previously traveling through Cuba and the Bahamas. It was not until he tried to enter Jamaica that officials spotted his name on an Interpol red list and found there was an international warrant out for his arrest.

Prosecutor Cheryll Richards said during last week’s hearings that Tanjala’s conduct did not suggest someone desperately seeking political asylum as he had suggested.

“Rather it suggests someone seeking to escape justice whose plans were disrupted by his enforced return from Jamaica to Grand Cayman,” she said.

The judge’s decision means the original order for a writ of committal to be issued stands, and he will be handed over to Romanian authorities. Tanjala was convicted in 2011 of deliberately underselling property of a company, part-owned by the Romanian state, to a family member.

It was alleged that as administrator of the company IC IGMUG SA Giurgiu, he had become aware of an offer to buy the property from another firm, Zone Libere SA.

Instead of authorizing the deal, he orchestrated the sale of the asset to a company owned by his wife for a fraction of the price. That company then made the deal with Zone Libere SA at a massive profit.

The court heard that he had absconded from Romania immediately after his conviction and had been a fugitive ever since. He claimed he was fleeing an injustice and was attempting to reopen his case from exile in the U.S.



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What likely happens next?

Mihai Tanajala purchased the Seminole Lake Gliderport with stolen money from the Romanian people. Now that he has been caught as a convicted felon and fugitive he will be serving life in Romanian Prison.

Because Mihai was a well known fugitive on the red list with Interpol, as the international court processes this case all of his Assetts will be frozen. This will take some time as he had stolen over $100 Million Euro's (as convicted). The gliderport, hangars, offices and aircraft will be frozen and auctioned off to regain the money to the affected parties whom he stole from.

As the investigation further unfolds, anyone who worked with him will be investigated as per Florida Statute and Federal Law for "Haboring a Fugitive."

https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2011/944.46

944.46 Harboring, concealing, aiding escaped prisoners; penalty.—Whoever harbors, conceals, maintains, or assists, or gives any other aid to any prisoner after his or her escape from any state correctional institution, knowing that he or she is an escaped prisoner, shall be guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775..083, or s. 775.084.
History.—s. 6, ch. 57-313; s. 1175, ch. 71-136; s. 1651, ch. 97-102..

http://www.totalcriminaldefense.com/...ring-fugitive/

This is called aiding and abetting a fugitive which is a serious charge.

Not looking good for anyone who is storing anything out there. This is a major meltdown and due to the magnitude will take months if not years to sort through. It will be a slow process for sure.






 




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