Romanian millionaire's wife speaks of alleged state-sponsored kidnapping attempt

Adriana Constantinescu, the wife of Romanian businessman Alexander Adamescu, has accused the Romanian authorities of sponsoring an attempt to kidnap her from a street in London in March 2016, reports The Telegraph. Alexander Adamescu, who lives in London with his wife Adriana Constantinescu, was arrested last summer based on a European Arrest Warrant. He is charged with bribery in Romania and, last week, he appeared in court to answer the European Arrest Warrant demanding his extradition to Romania. His wife spoke about the alleged kidnapping attempt just before her husband’s appearance in court, calling it a “terrifying attack.” It was the first time when Adriana Constantinescu spoke about the moment when two masked men allegedly tried to pull her into a car just outside her home in London. “There was nothing random about this kidnap attempt – it is symptomatic of the attempts by the Romanian prosecutors and intelligence agents to intimidate us and show us what they are capable of doing,” she told The Telegraph. She described the attackers as being two men who were wearing bandannas and gloves. They were driving a Mini Cooper with fake numbers, as she later found from the police. She managed to escape because a neighbor heard her screaming and came running to her. Moreover, a cab driver stopped and called the police. “Although the kidnappers didn't speak, I knew they had been hired by the Romanians because they specifically targeted me and did not have any intent to rob me. We are a normal family in London and don't show off at all. You don't go to kidnap somebody randomly in front of a nursery where two toddlers have been dropped off,” she said, adding that the men didn't take her diamond earrings or the car keys in her hand. “It is the typical Romanian neo-Communist fashion to go after the entire family, wife, children, babies, when you want to destroy a person." Scotland Yard is currently investigating this incident, but no arrests have been made so far. Adriana Constantinescu also told the journalists that she feared for her husband's life if he were to be returned to Romania to face prosecution. She claims that Alexander's father, famous Romanian businessman Dan Adamescu, who is doing time in a Romanian prison for corrupting a judge, has been mistreated while in jail and is now in intensive care after a septic shock. Dan Adamescu is currently serving a jail sentence of four years and four months in Romania for bribing judges. Moreover, he should also stand trial in another case in which he is being prosecuted for the way he managed his insurance company, Astra Asigurari, which