The court’s decision is definitive.
Vintu’s associate, Ion Ilie Cezar, indicted in the same case, has been sentenced to five months in prison.
In February 2012, a Bucharest court decided Vintu would serve six months in prison for blackmailing Ghita. Ilie Cezar was handed a five-month jail sentence. The decision was appealed by both prosecutors and the two.
On May 23, 2011, prosecutors indicted Vintu and Ilie Cezar on charges of blackmailing Ghita. They had been placed under preventive arrest on April 29.
Prosecutors said the defendants forced Ghita to pay them EUR150,000 or accept the denouncement of a contract.