[3] But Raffinsky's new club entered in a financial crisis, and for the first time in seven years, Chinezul lost the Romanian championship.

He returns in Romania after two years, his come-back to Bucharest, where he previously played at Juventus, being linked with a move to Rapid.

In 1939, he was arrested, together with another three players of Rapid, Iuliu Baratky, Ştefan Auer and Ioan Bogdan, because of their win in the final of the Romanian Cup against Venus Bucharest.

[8] They were arrested at the order of Gabriel Marinescu, the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Prefect of Bucharest, who was also the chairman of Venus.

[9] After a huge scandal initiated by the press, the four players were released from the jail after a few days, and Gabriel Marinescu was arrested and executed in 1940.

[12] But the chairman of Astra Romana, a company where Raffinsky and his team-mate Emerich Vogl were office workers, interdicted the two players to leave their workplace.

[13] At the intervention of Octav Luchide, the two players eventually took the SS Conte Verde ship to Uruguay.