Budapest [Romania], March 7: Six people with alleged links to Russia have been detained in Romania on suspicion of planning a coup, the organized crime unit of the public prosecutor's office announced in a statement on Thursday.
The suspects are said to have had multiple contacts with "agents of foreign powers, both on Romanian and Russian territory," the statement by the Romanian organized crime and terrorism agency said.
Romanian media reported that one of those arrested is a 101-year-old retired major general who repeatedly spread anti-Semitic propaganda in the media. The agency has requested pre-trial detention for four of the suspects and house arrest for the other two.
The public prosecutor's office accuses the detained of treason and of founding a criminal group that it says has been planning "to impair the sovereignty and independence of the Romanian state by undermining the country's defence capabilities" since 2023. The suspects' goal was to lead Romania out of NATO, eliminate the current constitutional order and political parties, and take over the country's rule, it said. (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune
