BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's top court on Monday sentenced former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase to four years in jail for taking bribes, one of a handful of convictions in a poor country under pressure from the European Union to crack down on high level crime.
The sentence will send Nastase back to prison just months after he finished serving a previous term, also on corruption charges. The 63-year-old leftist politician has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and said the cases against him were all politically motivated.