Two statutes dealing with war crimes were passed in 1945; the following year, Antonescu and three of his followers were executed by firing squad. According to the military archives, between 1949 and 1963, largely corresponding with the rule of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, 260 people were executed in Romania, including Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Eugen Ţurcanu, the Ioanid Gang, Oliviu Beldeanu (the leader of the group that seized the Romanian embassy in Bern, Switzerland, in 1955), members of the anti-communist resistance movement and protesters during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. These executions came about following the 1949 Death Penalty Law defining offences against the communist state and the planned economy, modified by several decrees throughout the 1950s. They provided for the death penalty for some crimes against the state, peace and humanity. Large-scale embezzlement causing serious damage to the national economy was added to the list of crimes eligible for execution by decree 202/1953 while in 1957, the death penalty for aggravated murder was introduced into the Penal Code for the first time under communism.