{"id":1442089,"date":"2026-09-21T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/former-presidential-candidate-calin-georgescu-has-been-detained-in-romania\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:48:44","slug":"former-presidential-candidate-calin-georgescu-has-been-detained-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/former-presidential-candidate-calin-georgescu-has-been-detained-in-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"Former presidential candidate Calin Georgescu has been detained in Romania."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former presidential candidate C\u0103lin Georgescu was detained in Romania on September 21. He was stopped on the road and then taken to his home in Mogo\u0219oaia, where law enforcement officers are conducting a search.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/digi24.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Digi24.ro<\/a> reports this.<\/p>\n<p> The investigative actions are being carried out by the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT). Searches are being conducted at five addresses in Bucharest and the villages of Mogo\u0219oaia, Ciolpani, and Buftea.<\/p>\n<p> According to DIICOT, the investigation concerns the creation of an organized crime group and serious fraud. Investigators believe the group has been operating since 2021 in Romania and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p> According to law enforcement, the participants posed as successful businessmen and promised entrepreneurs multi-million dollar financing from foreign financial institutions. The victims were asked to provide monetary guarantees.<\/p>\n<p> In one incident, the victim was allegedly promised a \u20ac6 million loan, after which he transferred over \u20ac1 million. He was later offered an increase in financing to \u20ac15 million with an additional \u20ac100,000 guarantee. The total reported damages exceeded \u20ac1.1 million.<\/p>\n<p> DIICOT has not officially named the suspects, but Romanian media reports that Georgescu is among them. Interrogations and investigative actions are currently ongoing.<\/p>\n<p> C\u0103lin Georgescu ran in the 2024 Romanian presidential election and unexpectedly won in the first round. Subsequently, the Romanian Constitutional Court annulled the first round results amid allegations of interference and illegal campaign financing, after which Georgescu was barred from running in the rerun.<\/p>\n<p> In May 2025, Nicusor Dan became President of Romania.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>X<\/strong><\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Telegram<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Instagram.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former presidential candidate C\u0103lin Georgescu was detained in Romania on September 21. He was stopped on the road and then taken to his home in Mogo\u0219oaia, where law enforcement officers are conducting a search. Digi24.ro reports this. The investigative actions are being carried out by the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT). Searches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1442084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1442089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1442084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}