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List of Romanian politicians convicted of crimes

The following is a list of convicted Romanian politicians.

Presidents

  • Nicolae Ceaușescu, convicted by a special military tribunal on charges of genocide and sabotage of the Romanian economy and sentenced to death

Prime ministers

  • Constantin Dăscălescu, sentenced in 1990 to life imprisonment for manslaughter
  • Adrian Năstase, convicted in 2012 for two years in prison for misuse of a publicly funded conference to raise cash for his unsuccessful campaign in 2004. Convicted in 2014 for four years in prison for taking bribes and a three-year prison sentence for blackmail.

Ministers

  • Ion Dincă, Deputy Prime Minister (1980 1989), sentenced in February 1990 to life imprisonment and confiscation of all property
  • Emil Bobu, Minister of Interior (1973 1975), Labor Minister (1979 1981), was found guilty of complicity in genocide for his role in issuing orders to fire during the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and received a term of life imprisonment and confiscation of all his personal property
  • Decebal Traian Remeș, Minister of Agriculture, and Rural Development (4 April 2007 11 October 2007), sentenced in 2012 to three years' imprisonment for bribery.
  • Victor Babiuc, Minister of Defense (1996 2000), was sentenced in 2013 to 2 years in prison for a land swap through which the Romanian state lost almost $1 million.
  • George Copos, Deputy Prime-Minister (December 2004 January 2006), was sentenced in 2014 to 4 years imprisonment for tax evasion of around $1 million that was linked to the sale of several retail spaces from his company, Ana Electronics, to the Romanian National Lottery.
  • Tudor Chiuariu, Minister of Justice (5 April 2007 10 December 2007) and Zsolt Nagy, Minister of Communications (2004 2007), received in 2014 for corruption a 3½ and a four-year suspended sentence, respectively.
  • Relu Fenechiu, Minister of Transportation (2012 2013), was sentenced in 2014 to 5 years imprisonment. Fenechiu sold a number of old electrical transformers to Electrica Moldova at a highly inflated price of 2.8 million €.
  • Monica Iacob Ridzi, Minister of Youth and Sport (2008 2009), was sentenced in 2014 to five years in prison for embezzling money that was spent by the Ministry on the Youth Day festivities.
  • Gabriel Sandu, Minister of Communications (2008 2010), was sentenced in 2016 to 3 years imprisonment (before the appeal to 2 years imprisonment) for bribery and money laundering, and to an asset forfeiture of over €2 million in the Microsoft licensing corruption scandal.
  • Codruț Șereș, Minister of Economy and Commerce (2004 2006), was sentenced in 2016 to 4 years imprisonment for embezzlement of funds belonging to the Hidroelectrica company.
  • Dan Șova, minister in several Ponta cabinets, was sentenced in 2018 to 3 years imprisonment and €100,000 forfeiture for influence peddling.
  • Elena Udrea, Minister of Regional Development and Tourism (2009 2012), was sentenced in 2018 to 6 years imprisonment for bribery and abuse of power in the "Bute Gala" case.

Senators

  • Vasile Duță, sentenced in 2010 to 5 years imprisonment for influence peddling
  • Cătălin Voicu, sentenced in 2012 to 7 years imprisonment for bribery
  • Dan Voiculescu, sentenced in 2014 to 10 years in prison for using his political influence in the privatization of the Food Research Institute which had an estimated value of €7.7 million, but was instead bought by his company, Grivco at an undervalued price of €100,000 According to the prosecutors, the damages brought to the Romanian state amounted to over €60 million.
  • Constantin Nicolescu, convicted in 2015 for using false documents to contract financing of €900,000 from European funds that should have been used to revamp four schools. Nicolescu was also convicted for having taken a €60,000 bribe from businessman Cornel Penescu and sentenced to 7 years in prison. Also sentenced in 2017 to 8 years in prison for bribery, sentence subject to appeal.
  • , sentenced in 2016 to 3 years imprisonment for influence-peddling

Deputies

  • Liviu Dragnea, President of the Chamber of Deputies starting December 2016 and former Minister of Administration and Regional Development (2012-2015), convicted in a case involving electoral fraud, for which he received a two-year suspended sentence in April 2016. Dragnea was later sentenced to 3½ years in prison, in May 2019 after being found guilty of corruption.

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