{"id":12654,"date":"2026-10-26T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12654"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:00:37","slug":"bucharest-tribunal-rules-against-extending-calin-georgescus-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12654","title":{"rendered":"Bucharest Tribunal rules against extending C\u0103lin Georgescu\u2019s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bucharest Tribunal rejected DIICOT prosecutors\u2019 request to extend C\u0103lin Georgescu\u2019s pretrial detention by another 30 days. The court instead ordered his placement under judicial supervision for 60 days from the date the ruling becomes final, according to Euronews Romania<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s decision is not final and can be challenged by the organized crime prosecution unit DIICOT.<\/p>\n

C\u0103lin Georgescu, who surprisingly won the first round of the 2024 presidential elections<\/a>, will remain in Bucharest\u2019s Central Detention Center pending a final ruling. His current detention warrant expires on October 29.<\/p>\n

Georgescu has been in pretrial detention since September 29<\/a> in a case in which he is accused of defrauding businessman R\u0103zvan Leu of EUR 1.1 million in connection with a proposed precious-metals transaction.<\/p>\n

The Bucharest Tribunal previously approved C\u01celin Georgescu\u2019s transfer to house arrest <\/a>on October 13. However, DIICOT challenged that decision, and the Bucharest Court of Appeal definitively ruled on October 23<\/a> that he should remain in pretrial detention.<\/p>\n

After his arrest, Georgescu also became the subject of two additional criminal cases, Agerpres<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

On October 21, DIICOT charged him<\/a> over allegations that he asked a man to scan his villa in Mogo\u0219oaia to determine whether investigators had installed recording devices inside the property.<\/p>\n

The following day, Georgescu was questioned at the Central Detention Center in a separate case opened by prosecutors attached to the Buftea District Court. He is accused of making a Legionary salute while leaving a church in Buftea on October 7, when he was under judicial supervision.<\/p>\n

In the EUR 1.1 million fraud case, documents showed that R\u0103zvan Leu was asked to provide a EUR 1 million guarantee to obtain a EUR 6 million credit line. Prosecutors allege that EUR 100,000 of the amount was intended to finance Georgescu\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

The businessman was later persuaded to transfer another EUR 100,000 after being told the credit line could be increased to EUR 15 million. The loan was never obtained, and Leu allegedly did not recover the total EUR 1.1 million.<\/p>\n

C\u01celin Georgescu finished first in the opening round of Romania\u2019s 2024 presidential election, which was subsequently annulled by the Constitutional Court<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bucharest Tribunal rejected DIICOT prosecutors\u2019 request to extend C\u0103lin Georgescu\u2019s pretrial detention by another 30 days. The court instead ordered his placement under judicial supervision for 60 days from the date the ruling becomes final, according to Euronews Romania. Monday\u2019s decision is not final and can be challenged by the organized crime prosecution unit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}