Alba Iulia

After communism ended in 1989, Dec. 1 was declared a national holiday to commemorate the ethnic Romanians in Alba Iulia who declared a union of Transylvania with Romania.

Romanians attended military parades Saturday in Bucharest and Alba Iulia, the Transylvanian city that symbolizes Romania’s 1918 reunification.

Romania’s Alba Iulia Court of Appeals said that Lazar has been sent to the U.S. at the request of Interpol to finish serving a prison sentence handed down in 2016, regional outlets including Digi 24 reported.

Representatives for the Romanian Ministry of Justice and the Alba Iulia Appeals Court did not respond to request for comment on Lehel’s extradition data, according to ZDNet, a tech site that first reported the developments in English.

Romanian’s Justice Ministry previously said it would return Lazar to the U.S. following his release, and challenges mounted by the hacker aimed at thwarting the imminent second extradition were rejected as recently as last month by an appeals court in Alba Iulia.