In 2014, the case of Maria Cociorvan outraged the entire country and was heavily publicized. The woman, then 72 years old, was picked up by masked men directly from her home in the village of Iaslovăț and taken to DNA Bucharest, where she was accused of corruption
The woman was accused of bribing a judge from Rădăuți with 10 eggs. A long series of appointments followed, at which the woman showed up every time. She died two years later, in 2016, due to the emotional stress to which she was subjected, as a result of the frequent calls to the investigation, writes Prahova Online.
On Thursday, the Cluj Court of Appeal pronounced the sentence in the corruption case, in which Maria Cociorvan was the defendant, being sent to court for corruption offences. The court acquitted her postmortem.
One conviction
The judge at the Cluj Court of Appeal ordered that only one person, former judge Bogdan Bărbuță, from the Rădăuți Court, be sentenced to four years in prison with execution.
Bărbută was accused of supporting a businessman from Rădăuți, in his interest in several real estate properties.
In addition, he was also accused of “initially receiving food products, and later the sum of 1,000 euros, from Cociorvan Maria, in exchange for the promise that he would intervene with a judge from the Rădăuţi Court, so that he would pronounce a favorable decision in a case in which the son of the influential buyer was the plaintiff”.
In addition to Maria Cociorvan, acquitted post mortem, the Cluj Court of Appeal ordered that all the other persons in the file, 16 in number, be acquitted.
Source: Prahova Online
Publication date: 16-04-2023 17:22
