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Romanian Football Financer Penescu Released Under Judicial Control

Romanian FC Arges sponsor Cornel Penescu will be released under judicial control, as the Pitesti Court of Appeals rejected Saturday the appeal made by anticorruption prosecutors against the same ruling made by the Arges County Court.
Romanian Football Financer Penescu Released Under Judicial Control
22 mai 2010, 13:45, English

The decision is final and effective immediately.

Penescu will be forbidden from leaving the country and will have to report to a court whenever he is summoned. Furthermore, he may not change his residence without the approval of the Arges County Court. He is forbidden from owning and carrying weapons and he may not attend football matches or attempt to get in touch with other defendants or witness in the case, or their families.

Penescu, Liviu Facaleata, the former general manager of SC PIC SA Pitesti, former referee Ionica Serea and football referee Marius Martis were indicted Friday by anticorruption prosecutors on bribe-related charges.

On April 30, both Serea and Martis were placed under arrest for 29 days on charges of bribe taking and accessory to bribery. On May 11, Penescu and Facaleata were also placed under arrest for 29 days in the same case.

According to the National Anticorruption Department, on March 18, 2009, Serea received $21,000 from Penescu through Martis and Facaleata. In exchange for the money, Serea, the referee of the FC Arges-FC Steaua match on March 20, 2009, was to help the team financed by Penescu win the match and to apply disciplinary sanctions only to the other team’s players.