Romania’s former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and his wife Dana Nastase were recently placed on several years of probation in the Zambaccian case, where the two are accused of corruption. In conviction number two this year, Adrian Nastase got three years of probation after Romania's Supreme Court found him guilty of blackmail while he was Prime Minister, from 2000 to 2004, while his wife was also placed on three years of probation for using false documents.

Another figure in the case, Irina Jianu, was sentenced to three years in prison after the court found her guilty of using false documents.

Romania’s Anti-Corruption prosecutors sent Nastase and his wife, together with former State Construction Inspectorate head Irina Jianu to court in 2010. Nastase was accused of having received goods and money worth some EUR 630,000 – products imported from China, as well as construction services for Nastase’s houses in Bucharest and in Cornu, at his country retreat. The Supreme Court found Nastase and his wife innocent regarding these accusations.

This is Adrian Nastase’s second conviction this year, after he was sentenced to two years in prison following a case dubbed the “Quality Trophy’. He was accused of having financed his election campaigns with funds collected for the symposium ‘Quality Trophy’, organized by the State Inspectorate for Quality in Construction. The court’s decision was appealed.

In December last year, the court found Adrian Nastase not guilty in another case - the ‘Aunt Tamara’ case, where he was also investigated for corruption.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com