When did the connection between Călin Georgescu and Horaţiu Potra appear? The Attorney General, details in the file: “Potra traveled to Moscow in 2023 and in September 2024”
Calin Georgescu and Horațiu Potra. Collage: Ion Mateș / Hotnews. Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea and George Călin
The Attorney General of Romania, Alex Florence, said that certain elements of connection between the former independent candidate for the presidential elections Călin Georgescu and the mercenary Horaţiu Potra appear since the autumn of 2021, but they are consolidated in April 2022, when Georgescu appeals to the leader of the mercenar group to have his support. Alex Florence said that Horaţiu Potra traveled to Moscow in the fall of 2023 and September 2024, reports News.ro.
Alex Florence was asked on Tuesday evening, at Digi 24, when the connection between Călin Georgescu and Horaţiu Potra appeared.
“The certain elements of connection between the two appear since the autumn of 2021. They are strengthened in the spring of 2022, more precisely in April, when the independent candidate appeals to the leader of the mercenary group to be supported by him in the approach he was already in order to access the presidential elections. he said.
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He was asked if Horaţiu Potra already had links with the Russian Federation. “Yes,” Florence replied.
The Attorney General was then asked if the mercenary leader had already traveled to Moscow.
“From the elements of the file, he has been traveling since the autumn of 2023, even in September 2024,” said Alex Florence.
Asked if Potra's links with the Russian Federation documented by the prosecutors were prior to the first meeting with Călin Georgescu, the Attorney General replied: “Mainly, from that moment all the tasks begin to the foreign state, both direct and through some close ones of the mercenary leader, some of them with certain links in the Russian Federation, They had there.
He was asked if Potra's phone was found pictures in Moscow.
“From the computer searches, yes, at the time of the home searches that were made public at that time, several computer devices were raised, hidden in that bunker that was discovered and which, subsequently, being the object of the computer searches, many of these connections and among the external plan,” the General Prosecutor said.
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Alex Florence was also asked when Potra's people arrive around Georgescu as security guard, drivers.
“The whole major of attracting this group of mercenari is made directly around the elections in the first round of 2024. They were used on all levels. There are also cars that were handed over to the independent candidate, cars paid by mercenaries. There are several elements of this type. In the foreign legion and many of them in the Mercenaria Actions in Congo, being employed by the companies run by their leader, ”said Alex Florence.
Calin Georgescu admits the connection with Horațiu Potra and explains why he has denied so far. “One general, he was a man in the system, he said very clearly that he had to proceed.”
Calin Georgescu, sent to court
Former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu was sent to court last Tuesday, for six crimes, the most serious being complicity in the attempt to commit actions against the constitutional order and the communication of false information.
In the same file, Horațiu Potra was sent to court, for attempting to commit actions against the constitutional order, non -observance of the weapons and ammunition regime, non -observance of the regime of explosive materials, any operations with pyrotechnic articles performed without law and public instigation and 20 other mercenaries.
Horațiu Potra, his son, Dorian Potra and another family member, Alexandru Potra fled from Romania, being given international pursuit, and the Romanian authorities do not yet have information about the place where they would be.
