Imran Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison For Negligent Homicide Of Romanian Director Cristian Nemescu

The Bucharest court ruled Thursday that British citizen Ali Imran will serve six years in prison after he was found guilty of negligent homicide in the case of the killing of Romanian director Cristian Nemescu.

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Imran Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison For Negligent Homicide Of Romanian Director Cristian Nemescu

Imran also got a one-year prison term for driving an unregistered vehicle and one year for the causing of a car accident, but will serve the bigger sentence.
 
The court also ruled that Imran will pay an additional RON30,000 and RON20,000 to the families of the taxi driver and sound engineer Andrei Toncu, beside moral damages ordered by the lower court, namely RON28,000 to civil parties in the trial and RON500,000 to the victims’ relatives.
 
The sentence may be appealed at the Bucharest Court of Appeals.
 
Imran was sentenced in December 2007 by the Bucharest district 1 court, which found him guilty of negligent homicide and driving an unregistered vehicle. Imran will be expelled from Romania after he serves his sentence.
 
The accident Imran caused in Bucharest on the night of Aug 25-26, 2006 when he ran a red light in his unregistered Porsche Cayenne, claimed the lives of Romanian director Cristian Nemescu, 27, sound engineer Andrei Toncu,28, and the driver of the taxi they were in, Dumitru Arustei, 24.
 
Imran was in Romania for business and on the night of the accident he was going from one night club to another.
 
Nemescu and Toncu’s last film California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)" won the “Un Certain Regard” award at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007. The film, which stars Armand Assante and Razvan Vasilescu received over 20 national and international awards.
 

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