Accused Romanian con man acquitted

He was accused of defrauding over two hundred thousand dollars from the K.H.M.H. in 2002, but today Robertino Oprescu was acquitted of all charges. This afternoon a jury found Oprescu not guilty of nine counts of Forgery and nine charges of Claiming Upon a False Document. While that should have made Oprescu a free man, there was the matter of an expulsion order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, as the alleged con artist is also wanted in his home country for a Fraud conviction. Because of that wrinkle, the Romanian national was immediately taken into custody. In 2002, Oprescu, under the identity Tariq Aziz, is said to have created bogus companies and then hired two women to work for him, using them to deposit forged K.H.M.H. cheques into his account and then withdraw money on his behalf.