FILE PHOTO: Elena Udrea, president of the People's Movement Party (PMP), addresses her supporters during a rally to launch her candidacy for Romania's upcoming presidential elections at Victoria square in Bucharest September 28, 2014. Romania will hold its presidential elections on November 2. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel/File Photo
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Romanian court sentenced a former government minister as well as the daughter of former president Traian Basescu to jail on Tuesday for money laundering and instigating others to take bribes in a 2009 presidential campaign financing case.
The court in Bucharest gave Ioana Basescu, a public notary, a five-year prison sentence. Elena Udrea, a former centre-right minister, lawmaker and close political ally of former president Basescu was handed an eight-year prison term.
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