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Wednesday, 13.11.2024, 17:35
Latvian businessman Stalbergs sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for attempting to extort money from Vilkaste
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The court also ruled that Stalbergs would have to compensate Vilkaste LVL 1098. Prosecutor Salvis Skaistais had asked the court for a seven year and 11 month prison sentence for Stalbergs.
Stalbergs told LETA previously that he was not guilty of the crimes he was accused of, adding that Latvian courts could convict anyone of anything.
The criminal case against Stalbergs was submitted to the court in the summer of 2007. He was accused of attempting to extort money from Vilkaste, dissemination of false information, threatening Vilkaste, and others.
Stalbergs was arrested on November 15, 2006, but later released on an LVL 100,000 bail. He was arrested again on suspicion of organizing a murder attempt against then State Revenue Service's Customs Criminal Administration Director Vladimirs Vaskevics, ex-husband of Vilkaste, but later released from jail.
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