Romanian Football Referees Remain Under Preventive Arrest, Court Ruling Definitive

The Pitesti Court of Appeals also rejected the appeal against the Arges Court’s decision not to change judicial control measures in the case of Liviu Facaleata, the former general manager of SC PIC SA Pitesti, indicted on bribe-related charges in the same case.

The rulings of the Pitesti Court of Appeals are definitive.

In May, anticorruption prosecutors indicted Serea, Martis, Facaleata and Cornel Penescu, the sponsor of Romanian football team FC Arges for fraud. The latter two were released under judicial control in late May.

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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.