A Bucharest court this week-end sentenced Alexander Istrate, wartime police official found guilty of participation in a pogrom in 1941, to life imprisonment. Istrate was also found guilty of fatally shooting one of the Jews he arrested.
Former judge Gheorghe Marino received a sentence of 12 years imprisonment after he was found guilty of maltreating and robbing Jewish deportees. Marino was in charge of supervising the transfer of the deportees to Transnistria.
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