Hacker Marcel Lazar, aka Guccifer is asking for a shorter prison time. He is brought to court on Thursday for a new hearing, with his lawyers requesting for the merger of his sentences in prison applied in Romania and in the USA. Guccifer is charged with hacking the emails of several politicians.
The Romanian hacker was sentenced to four years and four months in prison by a federal court in Virginia, USA and to another seven years in prison by the Arad Tribunal.
His lawyers are also asking the court to acknowledge as detention time those seven months that Lazar spent in a US prison while he was being investigated.
The hacker was escorted from the US to Romania in October 2016 to serve his prison time.
Guccifer was convicted to 7 years in prison by a Romanian tribunal in June 2014. Anti-organized crime prosecutors accused him that he had repeatedly broken the email accounts of several public persons in Romania, in order to get confidential data. Among those who had their email hacked there were former intelligence head George Maior and EU commissioner Corina Cretu.
At the same time, in September 2016, the Romanian hacker was sentenced to four years and four months in prison by a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia for hacking the Bush family’s emails, as well as for identity theft.
According to the law, sentences can be merged by applying a rise to the higher sentence.