Businessman Gheorghe Ciorba was sentenced to one-and-a-half years in prison in the same case for offering bribes.
The decision may be appealed with the High Court of Justice’s panel of five judges.
Anticorruption prosecutors said Remes, who was agriculture minister between April 2007 and October 2007, is accused of influence peddling, and Muresan of having been an accessory to bribe taking.
According to the bill of indictment, on September 1, 2007 and September 23, 2007, Remes accepted and received food products worth 1,500 lei (EUR345) and EUR15,000 from Ciorba through Muresan, to help firm SC Construct Europromt SRL Certeze (owned by Ciorba’s son) win two auctions.
Remes resigned from the position of minister on October 11, 2007. (EUR1=RON4.3477)