Article by Romeo Ene – published Monday, May 26, 2025, 19:05 / Updated Monday, May 26, 2025 19:05
Mario Iorgulescu (29 years old), the son of Gino Iorgulescu, the president of the Professional Football League (LPF), wants to escape prison behind the fatal accident committed in 2019.
His lawyers invoked the prescription of criminal liability, according to fanatik.ro. Mario Iorgulescu He was definitively sentenced to 8 years and 8 months in prison for guilty murder, after causing a road accident on September 8, 2019, which resulted in the death of a 24 -year -old.
Iorgulescu Jr. was under the influence of prohibited substances and had a speed of 143 km/h.
Mario Iorgulescu's lawyers invoked the prescription of criminal liability
On May 8, 2025, the Bucharest Court of Appeal admitted in principle the annulment appeal filed by Mario Iorgulescu against the sentence of conviction.
Therefore, his lawyers invoked the intervention of criminal liability for the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to CCR decisions no 297/2018 and 358/2022, according to the quoted source.
They said that the court of appeal did not analyze this possible cause of termination of the criminal trial. Would mean a procedural error.
At the same time, the Court also finds that the court of appeal that pronounced the criminal decision challenged by the contestant, did not debate and analyzed the question regarding the intervention of the prescription of criminal liability regarding the criminal accusation provided by art. 336 para. 1 and 2 C.pen.
Therefore, the Court finds, from this perspective, that, in this case, there is an appearance of sustainability between the factual basis invoked by the contestant-non-analysis, in the appeal's appeal, of the aspect aimed at terminating the criminal process-and the circumstances attesting the proof of the factual base invoked, in the absence, in the absence of this aspect.
– Motivation the court decision in May
The prescription of criminal liability means the termination of the right of the state to take a person for a committee, if a certain time stipulated by law has passed without the deed having been definitively sanctioned.
For the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol and other substances, the limitation period is 8 years and expires, theoretically, on September 8, 2027.
