Following the court’s definitive ruling, Vintu will continue to serve his one-year jail sentence for blackmailing former Realitatea Media manager Sebastian Ghita.
The case prosecutor said Friday in court that Vintu had more than 3,300 phone conversations while in prison and broke several prison rules.
On June 21, 2012, the Bucharest Court of Appeals sentenced Vintu to one year in prison for blackmailing Ghita. Vintu’s associate, Ion Ilie Cezar, indicted in the same case, has been sentenced to five months in prison.
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.