Lawyer Valerian Manzat was sentenced to nine years in jail by a definitive court decision. On August 8, the Penal Board of the Supreme Court of Justice rejected the request of his lawyers, who asked that the Appeals Court’s decision should be quashed. The sentence was published on the website of the Supreme Court of Justice, IPN reports.
Valerian Manzat was convicted of swindle of considerable proportions, which carries a penalty of seven to ten years behind bars and a ban on holding particular posts or performing particular activities for a period of up to five years.
The lawyer swindled a woman out of €20,000 for helping hasten the transfer of her husband from a Russian penitentiary to a jail in Moldova. The lawyer didn’t solve the case and the woman asked for her money back. The lawyer was arrested when he was returning a part of the money.
Oleg Pantea, head of the Public Relations and Mass Media Division of the Department of Penitentiary Institutions, has told IPN that now Valerian Manzat is held in Penitentiary No. 13. When the execution ordinance is received from the Supreme Court of Justice, the Department will order to transfer the convict to another jail where he will serve his time.
