Son of Victor Micula sentenced to suspended prison term for illegal access to police databases – Supreme Court of Justice rejects appeal
Romania's Supreme Court of Justice has rejected an appeal by the son of businessman Victor Micula, upholding the suspended prison sentence in the case concerning illegal access to the Romanian Police's computer systems.
Supreme Court of Justice rejects final appeal by businessman Victor Micula's son in case of illegal access to police databases
The son of businessman Victor Micula has exhausted all available remedies in the case concerning illegal access to the computer systems of the Romanian Police, according to G4Media. The Supreme Court of Justice (ÎCCJ) rejected, on Wednesday, 14 October, cassation appeals filed by both Micula and former police officer Camelia-Maria Erdei, upholding the previous decision of the Court of Appeal in Alba Iulia.
The case reached the ÎCCJ on 29 June 2026, after Victor Micula and Camelia-Maria Erdei challenged the final decision of the Alba Iulia Court of Appeal through a cassation appeal — an extraordinary remedy through which a convicted person can request the supreme court to verify whether the judgment respects the law. Unlike an appeal, this procedure does not involve retrial of the facts and evidence, but examination of potential legal violations strictly in cases provided for by the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The procedure went through two stages. A filter panel first examined the admissibility of the requests, completing this examination on 30 September, when the ÎCCJ admitted in principle both appeals and set the trial date for 14 October. At the hearing on Wednesday, judges proceeded to substantive judgment, examining the grounds raised by the two defendants, and rejected both requests as unfounded. The ÎCCJ decision is final, and both were ordered to pay 300 lei each in court costs to the state.
The case was brought to court by the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Bihor County Court, which accused the businessman's son of having received information from the databases of the Ministry of Internal Affairs from police officers in Oradea and of having been allowed to personally access the Police's computer system with the assistance of officer Camelia Erdei. In the same investigation, two other police officers — Claudiu Rengle and Alin Claudiu Zanca — were accused of having exempted him from sanctions after Micula drove his car on the pedestrian street Vasile Alecsandri in Oradea.
In September 2025, the Bihor County Court sentenced Micula to 3 years and one month in prison to be served, and the three police officers to sentences ranging from 2 years and 8 months to 3 years in prison. At Micula's request, citing intense media coverage of the case, the trial was transferred from Oradea to Alba Iulia.
On 26 March 2026, the Alba Iulia Court of Appeal fundamentally changed the first-instance sentence. Micula received 3 years in prison suspended, a supervision period of 4 years, and an obligation to perform 120 days of community service. The judges found that the young man had illegally accessed the Police systems "out of boredom" and that his actions caused only "minimal harm" to the values protected by law, for which reason they determined that actual imprisonment was not necessary. Camelia Erdei also received a sentence of 2 years and 8 months, also suspended, while Rengle and Zanca were definitively acquitted.
By the decision of 14 October, the ÎCCJ confirmed that this solution remains final and irrevocable.
Source: G4Media