The Bucharest Court of Appeal on Tuesday, September 29, upheld an appeal by DIICOT prosecutors and ordered former Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu placed in pre-trial detention for 30 days. The same measure was applied to businessman Ionel Rusen. The ruling is final. Georgescu and Rusen are accused of forming...
Former Romanian presidential candidate detained over million-euro fraud case
Romanian prosecutors from the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) detained former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu on Monday morning. Officers stopped the politician in his car in Otopeni and took him to his home in Mogoșoaia, near Bucharest, where a search was carried out. According to DIICOT, the...