Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ko da yake har yanzu yana da alaƙa da Iron Guard, Cecan daga ƙarshe ya yi ƙaura zuwa Carol II na National Renaissance Front a 1938. A ƙarshen watan Yuni na shekara ta 1940, Ƙasar Bessarabia ta shiga hannun Ƙasar Rasha ta Dā
, kuma NKVD da sauri ta kama Cecan. Gwamnatin Moldavian SSR ta yi amfani da labaransa na antisemitic da membobinsa na PNSR a kansa. A ranar 13 ga Maris, 1941, Kotun Kishinev ta yanke masa hukuncin kisa a matsayin "mai adawa da juyin juya hali", yana mai ambaton Mataki na 54-11 da 54-13 na Dokar Laifuka ta Ukraine. An dakatar da hukuncinsa yayin da ake sake yin la'akari da ayyukansa a matsayin Russophile; wasu 'yan siyasa sun shiga tsakani a madadinsa tare da Lavrentiy Beria, Mataimakin Firayim Minista na lokacin. Koyaya, dalilinsa ya zama ba za a iya kare shi ba a watan Yunin 1941, tare da haɗin gwiwar Jamus da Romaniya kan Soviet Union. A ranar 27 ga Yuni, kwana biyar bayan fara yakin, NKVD ta harbe Cecan a asirce. Kodayake wasu ayyukan sun nuna cewa wannan ya faru ne a kurkukun Kishinev, fayilolin NKVD sun rubuta wurin mutuwarsa a matsayin Tiraspol.