Romania: ex-president’s brother gets prison for bribery

BUCHAREST, Romania – A court has upheld a four-year prison sentence for the brother of Romania’s former president on charges of influence-peddling, ruling he took a bribe from the son of a convict in return for promising to secure his early release.

The Court of Appeal in Constanta on Thursday upheld an earlier sentence for Mircea Basescu on Thursday on charges that he took a 600,000 euros ($672,000) bribe from Fanica Anghel, the son of Sandu Anghel, serving a sentence for attempted murder.

Prosecutors said Basescu, the brother of Traian Basescu, who was president from 2004 to 2014, took the money and promised Anghel he could get his father’s sentence reduced.

Marian Capatana, a politician convicted of being accomplice, was sentenced to three years in the case.

Traian Basescsu declined to comment.

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