[2] In July 2003, former police colonels Tudor Stănică and Mihail Creangă were sentenced to 12 years imprisonment each for having instigated the murder of Gheorghe Ursu.
[2][3][4][5] The two were found guilty of deliberately assigning Ursu to a cell where two recidivist and violent common criminals were serving time, and of having prevented their subordinates from intervening when the prisoner was being beaten.
[2] Stănică and Creangă went into hiding for several months, and turned themselves in only after the Supreme Court reduced their sentences by one year.
[2] Their temporary flight and the Supreme Court's decision caused some consternation abroad: in September 2003, Finnish MEP Astrid Thors asked foreign embassies in Bucharest to closely monitor the case.
[2] In February 2011, Clită was convicted of first degree murder of the Norwegian stewardess Vera Vildmyren in a hotel in Denmark.