Treason Allegations in Romania
Six Romanians are presently facing treason charges. They have also been accused of connection with Russian agents
Roxana Vasile, 07.03.2025, 13:50
On Thursday morning prosecutors with the Direction for Investigating International Crime and Terrorism, known as DIICOT, announced that six people had been apprehended on treason charges after having negotiated with Russian agents Romania’s coming out of NATO. Further information was provided later in the day and we learnt that the suspects were part of the so-called ‘Vlad Tepes Command’, which also included Radu Theodoru, a retired major-general and WWII veteran aged 101.
The organization’s main aim was, according to DIICOT, ‘to affect the sovereignty and independence of the Romanian state and also to undermine the country’s political and defence capabilities through continued, conscious, public or conspiracy activities.
Members of the aforementioned military-style organization have allegedly recruited followers and published on-line video materials. According to prosecutors, they would have initiated actions aimed at removing the present constitutional order of dismantling the political parties and instating a government made up of members of the aforementioned organization who would have served as ministers. They also wanted to remove all employees from state institutions, adopt a new Constitution, change the country’s flag, anthem and even its name. They also stood for a social order based on moral principles and a system based on collective wisdom. In January, two of the suspects travelled to Moscow where they allegedly met people ready to support the organization with a view to taking over power in Romania. In fact, the six persons’ indictment on charges of treason – sources in Bucharest say – is actually related to the expulsion of two Russian diplomats a day before.
We recall the Romanian authorities decided to declare the Russian Federation’s military attaché and his deputy persona non grata. The two have been accused of involvement in activities running against the 1961 Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. According to the Romanian Intelligence Service, the two Russian diplomats gleaned information from fields of strategic interest and had activities in support of the anti-Constitutional moves of the Vlad Tepes organization.
Moscow pledged to respond in kind and described the expulsion of the two diplomats as unjustified and unfriendly.
Under the circumstances, the Romanian legal authorities on Thursday night decided the preventive arrest of two members of the command structure of the ”Vlad Ţepeşʺ, organization whereas four other members have been placed under court supervision for a period of 60 days.
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