A journalistic investigation by Public Records shows a series of moments and contexts in which Călin Georgescu was surrounded over the years by names from state institutions such as MApN, SRI or SPP.
Georgescu describes himself as an anti-system candidate PHOTO Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
According to a Public Records analysis, Călin Georgescu visited the Tăuni monastery in Alba in 2022, together with several citizens, among them being members of the Pămăt Strămoșesc movement, an association founded by the presidential candidate, but also a former head of the SRI and a colonel and a retired general and former DIPI policeman.
Visit with employees from MApN, SRI and DIPI
It is about Ioan Tarnu, former head of the Alba County Intelligence Directorate of the SRI, and Sorin Chirigiu, colonel in reserve and former legal adviser in the Ministry of Defense (MApN), but also Vasile Petric, former policeman in the Intelligence and Protection Directorate Internal from Alba. In their case, there are associations with several other parties, such as the Alliance for the Romanian Union (AUR), the Romanian Party for Romania (PRR), the Law Education Unitate (LEU) or even the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Save Romania Union (USR).
Chirigiu even represented Călin Georgescu at an event in the Parliament, and his name appears in a campaign document as the coordinator of the events organized to support Georgescu. He stated that he is a “very long time supporter and volunteer”.
The Adevărul newspaper reported that Georgecu held his election campaign events in a house where, two years ago, Toni Greblă, head of the Permanent Electoral Authority, also participated in the slaughter of the pig. According to the journalistic analysis, Chirigiu was also there, and the house belongs to one of the founders of LEU. Chirigiu was also a legal advisor for the Alexcor Trading company, controlled, according to G4 Media, by influential figures from PSD Caracal. He was also the head of the legal department in USR Ilfov.
Other names from MApN are Sabin Truță, a pensioner who ran for the Chamber of Deputies in 2024 from the National Christian Alliance (ANC), and Victor Voicu, who was at the launch of the association Pământul Strămoșesc in 2021. He is the former secretary general of the Romanian Academy and president of the Science Section, but also former head of the medical department in the Ministry of National Defense between 1990 and 1995.
Launch of the Ancestral Land association
Reserve colonel Florin Șinca, former chief police commissioner in the General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police, also participated in the launch of the association “Pământul Strămoșesc”. He worked in the Protection and Guard Service (SPP), the Directorate of Special Operations and the National Office for Witness Protection, and in 2021 he entered the AUR.
“Both Mr. Georgescu and I were part of what we call systems. That is precisely why we know them inside out, we have the will and we will reform them. Because you can efficiently and effectively fight drug trafficking without having information from the proximity of criminals”declared Şinca, according to the quoted source.
In the case of the event, the name of Dragoș Rusu, former deputy general commissioner of the General Commissariat of the Financial Guard, also appears, who would have appeared in an indictment from 2013, in a file with magistrates who revealed secret information that endangered the security of the state. Rusu said it was a smear operation.
Book launches with a head of doctorates from the National Academy of Information
On the list of the publication is also Cristian Troncotă, former professor leading doctorates within the National Academy of Information, who taught in various educational institutions under the umbrella of the Romanian Intelligence Service, for more than 30 years, and who would have said, according to of the Turnul Sfatului din Sibiu publication, at the launch of a book by Georgescu ca “people really think that they are free, that they live in democracy, in reality they are being manipulated by this force.” At another event, according to the cited source, he would have stated that “the assassination of the legionnaires was an act of state terrorism”
Another name specified by the publication is that of the policeman Marius Niculin, who coordinated the collection of signatures for Georgescu’s candidacy in Dâmbovița and worked, after the revolution, in the Ministry of Defense.
