The Pitești Court of Appeal pronounced final convictions to prison in a case involving fictitious anti-Covid vaccinations.
The court rejected the appeals as unfounded and upheld the ruling of the Argeș Tribunal that convicts 20 defendants, one of whom is a registrar at a vaccination center in Argeș.
He also has the highest sentence - 2 years and 4 months in prison for bribery and computer forgery, both in a continued form, meaning multiple times.
Three other defendants, who were intermediaries, were sentenced to 10 months of suspended imprisonment for complicity in computer forgery. For them, a 2-year supervision period was established, along with the obligation to perform 100 unpaid working days.
The beneficiaries of the fictitious vaccinations (15 defendants) were sentenced to 8 months of suspended imprisonment for complicity in computer forgery: Here too, there is a 2-year supervision period and they must perform 60 unpaid working days for the community's benefit at various town halls in the Argeș county.
The criminal case was initiated in January 2022 following a report from the Argeș County Anticorruption Service.
The registrar from a vaccination center in Argeș, who entered vaccinated persons against Covid into the RENV database (National Electronic Vaccination Register), demanded and received various sums of money, as well as material benefits (vouchers related to vaccination), to falsely attest to the vaccination of several individuals from May 2021 to February 2022.
"They did not actually get vaccinated, as the immunization serum was not administered to them, yet they were later listed in RENV as vaccinated and were thus prosecuted by the prosecutor for complicity in computer forgery.
The next three defendants, intermediaries in the case, in addition to their own fictitious anti-Covid 19 vaccinations, contributed, through specific acts of assistance typical of complicity, to the false anti-Covid 19 vaccination of other individuals, whose identity data reached the first defendant for him to use in digitally certifying the vaccination of these individuals against Covid 19 (without actual vaccination), for the purpose of legal consequences (freedom of movement, access to shopping centers, access to educational institutions, access to medical facilities, etc.), a necessary condition for issuing vaccination documents against Covid 19," according to the General Anticorruption Directorate's statement.
Additionally, the court ordered the total annulment of the vaccination certificates issued to the defendants in the case.