Profile updated: 23.12.19
Nelea Budai
judge
judge
Date of Birth: 15.05.1961
Place of Birth: Pociumbauti, Riscani district
She started her career as a courier and registrar and joined the magistrate corps in 1990. In 2000 she got promoted to a post of judge in the Court of Appeal and in 2003 Mrs. Budai got appointed to the Chisinau Court of Appeal, where she earned the job of deputy chairwoman ten years later; she still holds this position today.
Nelea Budai is one of many Moldovan judges who earned a bad name for the condemnation of Moldova in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). In a governmental report released to the High Council of Magistrates in 2013, the name of Nelea Budai is associated with seven cases for which the ECHR slapped Moldova for violation of various fundamental rights.
A performance evaluation board of the High Council of Magistrates found in 2016 that Mrs. Budai had been part of a judge panel that allowed the infringement of the European Convention for Human Rights, in particular Article 8. That was the case of a 32-year-old woman who was sterilized in a maternity without her consent but received negligible compensations as ruled by national courts. The ECHR dictated Moldova to pay 12,000 euros in damages to the woman.
Nelea Budai was also part of a judge panel which in November 2015 ordered the Public Property Agency to sell a wished-for 1.17-hectare land site within the Moldexpo exhibition center in the capital to Finpar Invest SRL. The latter is the oldest business of the former leader of the Moldovan Democratic Party, Vladimir Plahotniuc. The site hosts a number of studios of General Media Group, Plahotniuc’s media holding. The litigation with Finpar Invest SRL took four years and the Supreme Court of Justice ultimately turned down the claim.
The judge’s husband has worked lately in a number of security companies. Among them is Klassika Force SRL of Ilan Sor, Orhei city’s fugitive mayor-turned-lawmaker who earned seven years and six months in prison for his role in the billion-dollar fraud in 2014.
Nelea Budai is one of many Moldovan judges who earned a bad name for the condemnation of Moldova in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). In a governmental report released to the High Council of Magistrates in 2013, the name of Nelea Budai is associated with seven cases for which the ECHR slapped Moldova for violation of various fundamental rights.
A performance evaluation board of the High Council of Magistrates found in 2016 that Mrs. Budai had been part of a judge panel that allowed the infringement of the European Convention for Human Rights, in particular Article 8. That was the case of a 32-year-old woman who was sterilized in a maternity without her consent but received negligible compensations as ruled by national courts. The ECHR dictated Moldova to pay 12,000 euros in damages to the woman.
Nelea Budai was also part of a judge panel which in November 2015 ordered the Public Property Agency to sell a wished-for 1.17-hectare land site within the Moldexpo exhibition center in the capital to Finpar Invest SRL. The latter is the oldest business of the former leader of the Moldovan Democratic Party, Vladimir Plahotniuc. The site hosts a number of studios of General Media Group, Plahotniuc’s media holding. The litigation with Finpar Invest SRL took four years and the Supreme Court of Justice ultimately turned down the claim.
The judge’s husband has worked lately in a number of security companies. Among them is Klassika Force SRL of Ilan Sor, Orhei city’s fugitive mayor-turned-lawmaker who earned seven years and six months in prison for his role in the billion-dollar fraud in 2014.
Political Affiliation
Private Function
Public Function
Career
2013
Chisinau Court of Appeal
deputy chairwoman
06.2003
Chisinau Court of Appeal
07.2013
judge
02.2000
Court of Appeal
06.2003
judge
08.1996
Chisinau Tribunal
02.2000
judge
06.1990
Lenin Disctrict Court of Law, Chisinau
08.1996
judge
04.1980
Frunze Disctrict Court of Law, Chisinau
06.1990
registrar
07.1979
Octombrie Disctrict Court of Law, Chisinau
04.1980
registrar
10.1978
Octombrie Disctrict Court of Law, Chisinau
07.1979
courier
Income
2018
Total: 643.506,12 MDL
2017
Total: 660.995,45 MDL
2016
Total: 350,00 EUR
590.549,44 MDL
2015
Total: 642.635,83 MDL
2014
Total: 604.531,70 MDL
2013
Total: 390.641,91 MDL
2012
Total: 346.670,73 MDL
Real Estate
2016
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 0,3148 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2016
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 0,373 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2016
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 0,4361 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2016
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 0,713 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2016
Agricultural land
Value: 32.457,57 MDL
Area: 0,662 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2016
House
Value: 18.370,00 MDL
Area: 85,5 mp
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2016
Other real estate
Value: N/A
Area: 18 mp
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2015
House
Value: 34.134,00 MDL
Area: 114,1 mp
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2015
Other real estate
Value: N/A
Area: 45,7 mp
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2015
Other real estate
Value: N/A
Area: 51,7 mp
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2015
Urban land
Value: 1.228,00 MDL
Area: 0,814 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2014
Agricultural land
Value: 3.566,07 MDL
Area: 0,22 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2014
Agricultural land
Value: 3.566,07 MDL
Area: 0,22 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2014
Agricultural land
Value: 8.405,00 MDL
Area: 0,7128 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2014
Agricultural land
Value: 8.408,00 MDL
Area: 0,4359 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2014
Urnban land
Value: N/A
Area: 0,814 ha
Ownership: 100%
Owner: spouse
2013
Rural land
Value: 492,00 MDL
Area: 0,48 ha
Ownership: 100%
2012
House
Value: 1.510.816,00 MDL
Area: 344,5 mp
Ownership: 100%
2012
Other real estate
Value: 62.208,00 MDL
Area: 8 mp
Ownership: 100%
2011
Other real estate
Value: 17.800,00 MDL
Area: 2 mp
Ownership: 100%
1998
Urban land
Value: 351.596,00 MDL
Area: 500 mp
Ownership: 100%
Mobile Assets
2010
Car
Range Rover
Value: 288.000,00 MDL
Owner: spouse
212 shares
Interpore Prim SA
Value: 212,00 MDL
Loans (Taken)
2015 - 2017
Budăi Boris
(0%)
20.000,00 EUR
Ion Grădinar
Documents
Otilia Dragutanu
businesswoman
businesswoman
Vladimir Plahotniuc
politician
politician
Pavel Filip
politician
politician
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Moldovan Association of Judges
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