Pasat was also sentenced to eleven months in prison for corruption but will be serving the higher sentence if he is convicted irrevocably. The sentence passed Wednesday may be appealed.
Anticorruption prosecutors indicted Pasat in April 2011.
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Former MP Dan Pasat Gets Three-Year Prison Sentence For Blackmail
Romania’s High Court of Justice on Wednesday sentenced former democrat liberal MP Dan Pasat to three years in prison for blackmail.