RFE
17 Mar 2025, 04:32 GMT+10
A lawyer from a shadowy group named after Vlad the Impaler met with the deputy Russian military attache at a Bucharest restaurant to plot the overthrow of the Romanian state, according to prosecution documents seen byRFE/RLs Romanian service.
The alleged meeting, in late January, lasted no more than 30 minutes.
The next day, the lawyer, Adrian Robertin Dinu, and another man, Slavic studies professor Marius Semeniuc, boarded a flight to Istanbul, where they transferred to their final destination - Moscow.
Dinu and Semeniuc have since been arrested. They are part of a group of six men accused of treason on March 6.
The Russian, Colonel Yevgeny Ignatiev, was expelled from Romania for espionage on March 5, along with his boss.
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