BUCHAREST: Romania’s prime minister says one of his predecessors has shot himself and was in the hospital, just hours after a court upheld the ex-premier’s two-year prison sentence on corruption charges.  

Former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase would be Romania’s first leader to serve time in prison since the 1989 fall of communism.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, a close ally, visited Nastase at the hospital and said his condition was “under control.”

He would not detail Nastase’s wound, but media reports said he had shot himself in the neck after police arrived at his home to arrest him. Images broadcast on Antena 3 showed Nastase being brought carried out of an ambulance Wednesday evening into the hospital on a stretcher covered with a blue blanket.