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Final day of testimony in SISO trial

Former Executive Director, Morteza Jafarpour, and former Financial Director, Robert Salama, face charges related to fraud, conspiracy and altered documents.
Marius Carciumaru’s last cross examination was by his former friend, SISO Finance Director, Robert Salama. Both once lived in the same building, and sometimes went for beer after work, along with SISO’s other IT expert, Radu Bogdan. However, that didn’t stop Carciumaru from implicating Salama in the fraud scheme he brought to police.
In his questioning, Salama suggested that Morteza Jafarpour was the decision maker at SISO, and that he and others feared losing their jobs if they didn’t follow his orders.
Carciumaru has told the court that he used Photoshop to fake payroll, bank statements and cheques, because Jafarpour and Salama asked him to. He took his story to police in November 2010, three days after he was laid off, and shortly after an emotional meeting with SISO managers who had accused Jafarpour of death threats. Those charges were withdrawn in court.
This morning, Jafarpour’s lawyer established that there was suspiciously little information on the hard drive that Carciumaru took out of Jafarpour’s computer. It only had 140 emails, and only in the sent folder. There also weren’t any of the altered payroll documents there.
The lawyer suggested that Carciumaru only went to police because he was worried about his own culpability, and the only way to protect his own assets was to blame the boss. Carciumaru, however, says Jafarpour told him that as the boss, he was prepared to take the blame.
Lisa Hepfner has details from the end of the trial’s first week.
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