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  • 1 year ago
Five secret reports from different Romanian institutions and agencies have been made public by the country's president upon their request.
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00:00The Romanian political scene in battle's second round of the presidential elections
00:04have been thrown in disarray by the Romanian presidency decision to unseal the intelligence
00:10agency's report indicating a foreign interference in the elections in favor of far-right candidate
00:17Kalin Georgescu. Romania's foreign intelligence service states in the released documents that
00:24Romania is the target of aggressive hybrid actions by the Russian Federation. The dramatic
00:30move by the Romanian state to release the National Security Council's secret documents
00:36showed that major sums of money together with an elaborate foreign operation on social media
00:42influencing lead to the unexplained rise of the obscure extremist candidate Kalin Georgescu.
00:49The secret documents from three Romanian intelligence agencies details that 797 TikTok
00:56accounts created in 2016 for Georgescu and left dormant were activated to maximum capacity two
01:05weeks before the elections. Telegram accounts created in 2022 coordinated the TikTok and
01:13offer operations in favor of Kalin Georgescu who called himself an independent candidate
01:19with zero campaign spending. The documents which list a wide array of show that 1 million euros
01:26were mobilized by foreign state actors to drive Georgescu's campaign and the TikTok LHD confirmed
01:34that it received over 300,000 euros from Kalin Georgescu campaign. But Georgescu always maintained
01:42that he did not spend one euro for his campaign which opens the door to allegation and investigation
01:50of illegal campaign financing. The major question following now is the fate of the second round of
01:57the presidential elections the light of these revelations. For Euronews, Andrea Gourban.
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