The owner of the football club Steaua Bucharest, Gigi Becali, former minister of defense Victor Babiuc and the former chief of the General Army Staff Dumitru Cioflină have been convicted by the five-judge panel of the Supreme Romanian court to 2 years in prison each in the "Land Plots Trade" affair, as well as received restrictions of their civil rights for a five-year period. As to what concerns the former daughter of the minister of Defense, Ioan Babiuc, the court has reaffirmed the acquittal ruled by the three judges of the trial court. As for Becali, who had previously been sentenced to three years in prison with suspension in the case in which he forcibly confined several people, the court revoked the suspension of the enforcement of the punishment. The judges have also reindividualized the ruling by which Becali was convicted to three years in prison and have merged it with his two years of sentence from the ruling of the brief concerning the exchange of plots of land. After the cummulation of the two sentences, Becali is going to serve the biggest sentence, namely three years of prison with enforcement, of which the court has ruled that the period of April 2nd - April 17th, 2009, in which the businessman was detained and preventively arrested for his actions in the case of "forcible confinement". The rulings are definitive and irrevocable. The properties of Gigi Becali have also been seized. Him, Dumitru Cioflină and Victor Babiuc are required to pay 892,758 dollars in damages.

Gigi Becali will lose his tenure as a deputy. Shocked upon hearing the news, he shut himself in his office in the Parliament, refusing to make any further statements to the press, even though throughout the day he had appeared several times on all the news stations. After taking some time to compose himself, he exited his office and talked to the reporters, visibly shaken: "I hav