The Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office on July 13 filed an appeal against the June 27 sentence passed by the Buiucani Court by which former Prime Minister Vlad Filat was given nine years’ imprisonment for influence peddling and passive corruption, IPN reports.
The prosecution, which asked that the ex-Premier should be sentenced to 19 years behind bars, considers the sentence is too mild in relation to the illegalities committed by the culprit. It insists that the interests of the people and the state were significantly affected and thus demands a harsher punishment for Vlad Filat.
In accordance with the sentence passed by the ordinary court of law, Vlad Filat will serve nine years in jail and will pay a fine of 60,000 lei. He was also banned from holding public posts during five years and was deprived of the state award “Order of the Republic”. A part of his property that represents illegal remuneration to the value of 791 million lei will be confiscated.
