The former head of the State Main Tax Inspectorate Nicolae Vicol was sentenced to six years behind bars for acts of corruption on June 18. The Rascani Court of Chisinau, which passed the judgment, also banned him from holding public posts for a period of five years and obliged him to pay a fine of 10,000 lei, IPN reports.
The Court announced Vicol wanted as he didn’t come to the hearing. The sentence can be yet appealed to a higher court.
One of Vicol’s lawyers Vasile Nicoara said that Vicol is receiving treatment in Romania and wasn’t obliged to preset himself at the hearing. The lawyer considers the judges’ decision is illegal. “We didn’t expect such a decision. It is illegal. A number of legal norms were violated,” stated Nicoara.
Nicolae Vicol was arrested by anticorruption officers on February 15, 2013. He was accused of abuse of power and illegal tapping of his inferiors’ phones. After staying under house arrest for a period, he was set free under judiciary control by the Chisinau Appeals Court. He was charged immediately after the hunting incident in the Domneasca Forest that resulted in the death of one person.
