Niamz County Council President Ionel Arsen, who fled to Italy, surrendered on Monday, more than two weeks after the Brasov Court of Appeal sentenced him to six years and eight months in prison by firing squad in a corruption case.

According to some judicial sources, he surrendered to the police in Bari.

He was finally sentenced to six years and eight months of imprisonment by firing squad on March 10, the decision is final.

Ionel Arsen would have fled the country before the verdict

The Romanian police opened a general investigation of Arsen because the police could not find him to execute the warrant. A photo of Ionel Arsen was posted on the Romanian police website under the “Most Wanted” section, indicating that he had a warrant in his name for imprisonment, influence peddling and possession and transfer. bribes

He would flee the country before the final court decision.

Last year, Yonel Arsene was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months in prison for abuse of influence at the first instance in Bacau.

The accusations that the DNA makes against Ionel Arsen

In this case, Ionel Arsen was sent to the DNA court in 2018, being accused that during 2013, as a deputy and president of the PSD Neamț organization, he received from a person (a witness in the case) the sum of 100,000 euros in order to use influence, which he allowed himself to count on some people in the leadership of the National Integrity Agency to establish non-compliance with the legal provisions regarding the conflict of interest and the regime of incompatibility in the case of a person who at the time held a senior position in the local administration.

Anti-corruption prosecutors claim that the money handed over by a witness in a restaurant in Bucharest was supposed to reach the relevant persons through intermediaries.

Ionel Arsen is also the president of PSD Neamț since 2013. Ionel Arsen is one of the local PSD barons and was considered the right-hand man of former PSD leader Liviu Dragnius.