BREAKING: Romanian prosecutors found 10 million $ in cash burried in an underground safe at the house of Calin Georgescu's bodyguard.
Flight tickets to Moscow were found as well
BREAKING: Calin Georgescu was detained while in traffic by Romanian police - Digi24
Georgescu's bodyguard was in Moscow in Sep 24
Georgescu, telephone intercepts: "There is a plan, there is a strategy that only I know"
"After the discussion with Călin Georgescu, George Mocanu called the Russian Embassy and asked to be connected to Colonel Evgheni Ignatiev, the deputy military attaché of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest. "
Suitcases with cash and goldbars for a total of 3 million $, AKM's and grenade launchers were also found at his bodyguard's house
BREAKING: Prosecutors have placed Călin Georgescu under judicial control. He will not be allowed to create social media accounts, leave Romania or carry weapons.
Georgescu salutes the crowd as he exist the General Prosecutor's office
The Prosecutor General's Office announced that Georgescu is being prosecuted for:
- incitement to actions against the constitutional order
- communication of false information
- false declarations in continuous form
- initiating or establishing an organization with a fascist, racist or xenophobic character
- promoting, in public, the cult of persons guilty of committing crimes of genocide against humanity and war crimes
- initiating or establishing an organization with an anti-Semitic character
The maximum punishment only for the first count is up to 25 years in prison
A total of 18 people from his bodyguard's team were brought to the General Prosecutor's office
Georgescu's bodyguard asked businessman Frank Timis for at least 20 million dollars for Calin Georgescu's campaign, prosecutors say
Frank Timis is a controversial Romanian businessman with Australian citizenship, whose fortune is estimated at several billion euros. He owns gold mines and precious stones in Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Niger.
Here is a video with what Romanian prosecutors found
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