In 1981, me and other people were arrested in Târgu Jiu for playing barbut which is a dice game that was illegal during the communist regime. I was sentenced to six months in prison but eventually got released after about two as my club Olt Scornicești insisted for the re-trial.

In May 2008, Gigi Becali, the owner of FCSB, had promised €1.7 million to the footballers of Universitatea Cluj so that they would not succumb to CFR Cluj, sending one of his men with the money in Cluj-Napoca where he ended up detained by the National Anticorruption Directorate. A few days later, Becali claimed the money was to buy a land and presented a sales-purchase contract that he claimed was signed on April 15, one of the signatures being me. In 2013, I received received a one-year suspended sentence in the case, being found guilty of perjury in favor of Becali.