Former MP, former judge and two Romanian businessmen get jail time for trading influence
Another businessman judged in this case, Marius Locic, was sentenced to four years jail time, with parole, also for trading influence. Former judge Florin Costiniu was also sentenced to three years in jail for complicity to influence trading. The decisions came end last week and can be appealed.
According to prosecutors, Voicu, an MP, received some EUR 260,000 from Costel Casuneanu in 2009, for lobbying at the High Court of Justice, where Florin Costiniu was working, in favor of Casuneanu's firm, which was on trial. Voicu did something similar in the same year with Marius Locic, who gave him some RON 119,000.
Voicu received three sentences, two of four and five years for trading influence, and one of 1.2 years for forging official documents. He will serve the bigger sentence, of five years. Voicu was arrested in July 2011 and stayed in jail until end of March 2012, a period which will be deducted from his final jail time.
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