A five-judge panel with the Romanian High Court of Justice also sentenced Monday former defense minister Victor Babiuc and the former chief of the General Staff, General Dumitru Cioflina, to two years in prison each.
Becali and the two former high officials were sent to prison on charges of abuse of office against the public interest in the case regarding the exchange of property, which brought severe damages to the state.
The court ruling is final.
On May 24, 2012, the Supreme Court cleared Becali, Babiuc and his daughter Ioana, and Cioflina, of all charges in this case, but prosecutors subsequently appealed the court ruling.
Early February this year, Becali was also sentenced to a suspended three-year prison term for kidnapping the alleged thieves of his car.