{"id":12701,"date":"2026-10-29T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12701"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:00:52","slug":"bucharest-court-of-appeal-extends-calin-georgescus-detention-by-30-days-in-eur-1-1-mln-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12701","title":{"rendered":"Bucharest Court of Appeal extends C\u0103lin Georgescu\u2019s detention by 30 days in EUR 1.1 mln fraud case"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bucharest Court of Appeal upheld DIICOT prosecutors\u2019 challenge and extended C\u0103lin Georgescu\u2019s pretrial detention by 30 days, news agency Agerpres<\/a> reported. The same measure was ordered for businessman Ionel Rusen in the EUR 1.1 million fraud case.<\/p>\n

The two will remain in detention from October 29 through November 27. The ruling is final.<\/p>\n

The appeals court overturned a Bucharest Tribunal decision<\/a> issued two days earlier, which had rejected DIICOT\u2019s request for an extension and ordered C\u0103lin Georgescu and Ionel Rusen placed under judicial supervision for 60 days.<\/p>\n

The lower-court judge had found that prosecutors had not presented new evidence sufficient to justify their continued detention.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe preventive detention measure concerning the defendants is extended for 30 days, from October 29, 2026, through November 27, 2026, inclusive,\u201d the Bucharest Court of Appeal said in its ruling, as quoted by Agerpres.<\/p>\n

C\u01celin Georgescu was brought to court at around 5 p.m. on Wednesday, while several hundred supporters gathered on the steps outside. Some entered the building and chanted outside the courtroom, although the hearing was not open to the public.<\/p>\n

The investigation began following a complaint filed by businessman R\u0103zvan Leu, who was invited to participate in a precious-metals transaction requiring a EUR 6 million credit line. The prosecutors allege that Georgescu directed Leu to Rusen, who introduced him to an Italian citizen, presented as the representative of a Swiss bank.<\/p>\n

Leu was allegedly asked to provide a EUR 1 million guarantee, of which EUR 100,000 was intended to finance C\u01celin Georgescu\u2019s presidential campaign. He later transferred another EUR 100,000 after being told the credit line could be increased to EUR 15 million.<\/p>\n

The financing was never obtained, and R\u0103zvan Leu allegedly did not recover the EUR 1.1 million.<\/p>\n

Recently, C\u01celin Georgescu has also been charged in another DIICOT case<\/a> over allegations that he asked a man to scan his villa in Mogo\u0219oaia for recording devices installed by investigators. In a separate case, prosecutors are investigating allegations that he made a Legionary salute outside a church in Buftea while under judicial supervision.<\/p>\n

Following the detention ruling, far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) leader George Simion announced that the party would organize protests.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has C\u0103lin Georgescu done to make you keep him under arrest? Dictatorships have never ended well,\u201d Simion wrote on Facebook<\/a>. \u201cIn the coming days, we will be in the streets until you stop the repression.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

The Bucharest Court of Appeal upheld DIICOT prosecutors\u2019 challenge and extended C\u0103lin Georgescu\u2019s pretrial detention by 30 days, news agency Agerpres reported. The same measure was ordered for businessman Ionel Rusen in the EUR 1.1 million fraud case. The two will remain in detention from October 29 through November 27. The ruling is final. The […]<\/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-12701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701","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=12701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}