Florin Popescu, a member of parliament has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for bribing voters with fried chicken during an election in 2012. Popescu, who resigned his parliamentary seat last May, distributed 60 tons of chicken to voters during the election while seeking re-election.
A Bucharest court placed the condition of no parole on his sentence and also rejected an appeal by the disgraced politician during the culmination of a case that won him the mocking nickname the “Chicken Baron”….. from Ekiti….