The sentence was handed out by the High Court of Justice.
Nastase’s wife, Dana Nastase, also received a three-year suspended prison sentence in the same case for use of false documents, and was acquitted of being an accessory to bribe-taking and blackmail.
On January 30, 2012, the High Court of Justice sentenced Nastase to two years in prison in another case, in which he was charged with corruption in raising funds for his 2004 presidential election campaign. The decision may be appealed with the High Court’s panel of five judges.
On December 15, 2011, Nastase was acquitted in a separate trial in which he faced corruption charges. Anticorruption prosecutors appealed the decision.