Ionel Arsene, president of the Neamț County Council, was definitively sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in prison. She joins the list as of today political fugitives and he has just been put under general surveillance throughout Europe, being placed on the “Most Wanted” list of the Romanian Police.
Ionel Arsene, the president of the CJ Neamț, was definitively sentenced by the Brașov Court of Appeal to 6 years and 8 months in prison with execution. The decision was taken by the Brasov magistrates in a trial started five years ago, he was accused of influence peddling. It is a lower punishment than the one ordered by the judges from Bacău who first analyzed this file. They had decided almost a year ago on a higher punishment, over 8 years of imprisonment.
According to Digi24 sources, he would have gone to Italy now two weeks, iefixed before the judges pronounce the final decision in the case tried in five years.
Arsene joins some names heavies who have final convictions for breaking the law, but who slip through the fingers of our justice system.
Ionel Arsene is “considered excluded from the party” by the PSD leadership, but no announcement was made in this regard because “association with a criminal case” is not desired, sources from the social-democratic leadership told Digi24.ro.
Editor: Liviu Cojan
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