Sorin Rosca Stanescu

National Liberal Party (PNL) Senator Sorin Rosca Stanescu received a definitive sentence of two years, four months imprisonment, issued by the Bucharest Court of Appeals, while former Communications Minister Sorin Pantis received a two year, eight months imprisonment sentence.

Romania's appeals court on Tuesday jailed a senator, Sorin Rosca Stanescu, for two years and four months for his involvement in a case seen as a test of Romania's ability to conduct high-level corruption trials.

Stanescu was found guilty of using privileged information and manipulating the stock exchange by underselling shares in the oil company Rompetrol and then buying them back.