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Romania ex-PM Adrian Nastase jailed in bribery case | Romania ex-PM Adrian Nastase jailed in bribery case |
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Romania's supreme court has sentenced former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase to four years in prison for taking bribes. | Romania's supreme court has sentenced former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase to four years in prison for taking bribes. |
He was also given three years for blackmail, to run concurrently. The court found that two Romanian officials had helped Nastase to get Chinese goods for private properties in 2001-2004. | |
His wife Dana Nastase got a three-year suspended sentence for collusion. | His wife Dana Nastase got a three-year suspended sentence for collusion. |
Adrian Nastase survived a suicide attempt in 2012, just after getting a two-year jail term in a separate case. | |
In the ruling on Monday the court found that Nastase, 63, had received Chinese building materials and furnishings worth 630,000 euros (£521,000; $856,000) from a construction entrepreneur, Irina Jianu. | |
In return, he had appointed her head of the State Construction Inspectorate. | |
Jianu is already in prison, having been found guilty in the previous corruption case involving Nastase. | |
The former prime minister left prison only 10 months ago, after serving two-thirds of his previous two-year sentence for corruption. | |
Nastase was also found guilty of having blackmailed a former Romanian consul in Shanghai, Ioan Paun, in connection with the Chinese shopping spree. | |
Nastase denies wrongdoing, saying the cases against him were politically motivated. | |
Romania joined the EU in 2007 and remains under special monitoring by Brussels because of EU concerns about high-level corruption. |
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