{"id":7021,"date":"2025-10-01T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:00:38","slug":"romania-has-solid-proof-of-russian-involvement-in-presidential-campaign-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7021","title":{"rendered":"Romania has solid proof of Russian involvement in presidential campaign, president says"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Nicusor Dan<\/strong> said that Romanian authorities finally have solid proof of Russian involvement in Romania\u2019s cancelled 2024 presidential elections<\/a>. He also estimated that far-right candidate C\u0103lin Georgescu benefited from EUR 20 million in dark money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dan argued that authorities did not have proof that Russia interfered through advertising in the electoral campaign until the Prosecutor\u2019s Office report<\/a>. The latter showed that accounts and companies from Russia were used in the disinformation process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have proof of the fact that there were several sites that acted so that their advertising would reach a large number of people. Accounts and companies from Russia were used in this disinformation process, and I will inform our partners,\u201d the president also said, cited by <\/a>News.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, authorities in Romania do not have all the data yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were caught off guard by the scale and technological speed of the operation that was carried out for C\u0103lin Georgescu. Many websites used Russian advertising companies to reach a large number of people. For disinformation, accounts and companies from Russia were used. We still need a few months to have the complete picture,\u201d the president explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aside from online disinformation, the president estimated that C\u0103lin Georgescu\u2019s electoral campaign could have benefited from funding worth EUR 20 million, although prosecutors have data regarding EUR 1 million paid by businessman Bogdan Peschir<\/a>. Officially, Georgescu’s campaign had declared zero funding for the 2024 presidential campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition, the head of state suspects that behind Georgescu were people involved in Romanian corruption of the 1990s \u2013 2000s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said this as an intuition. To get from intuition to evidence, you have to trace the circuit of some money that moved, maybe through cryptocurrencies, maybe through tax havens. This is difficult and takes time,\u201d the head of state also declared.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time that president Dan has hinted at Georgescu’s behind-the-scenes connections and dark money. During an interview given last week, he referred to a local “network”<\/a> that backed the far-right pro-Russian candidate. The former recently hinted at a return to politics<\/a>, despite being investigated for an attempted coup<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nicusor Dan said he will inform EU partners of the proof of Russian involvement in Romania\u2019s cancelled 2024 presidential elections during the informal meeting of EU leaders in Copenhagen on Wednesday, October 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

EU and Western allies are also more aware of these destabilizing attempts coming from Moscow, according to the Romanian official. \u201cRussia is waging a hybrid war in Europe, including in Romania, to install friendly governments or amplify fears,\u201d Dan argued.<\/p>\n

European Union leaders are meeting on Wednesday in Copenhagen for informal discussions focused on defense and Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine, after a series of airspace violations and drone sightings sparked new security concerns. The most recent, a series of drone sightings that disrupted Danish air traffic, was labeled as a \u201chybrid attack\u201d by Denmark.\u00a0<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source: presidency.ro)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Nicusor Dan said that Romanian authorities finally have solid proof of Russian involvement in Romania\u2019s cancelled 2024 presidential elections. He also estimated that far-right candidate C\u0103lin Georgescu benefited from EUR 20 million in dark money.\u00a0 Dan argued that authorities did not have proof that Russia interfered through advertising in the electoral campaign until 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-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","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=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}