Călin Georgescu's hearing postponed to 9 November as he seeks a lighter measure than detention

The hearing in the case of Călin Georgescu, the former presidential candidate, was postponed at the Bucharest Tribunal on Thursday, 5 November 2026. His lawyers said the court will resume on Monday, 9 November, at 12:00, while it waits for the Bucharest Court of Appeal to give the reasons for its decision of the 29th to extend his pretrial detention.

Georgescu is accused of forming an organised criminal group and of fraud with particularly serious consequences. He is asking for the second time that his pretrial detention be replaced with a milder measure, a request made shortly after the Court of Appeal definitively extended his detention by a further 30 days. Any decision on the request will not be enforceable, and a possible release would take place only after the Court of Appeal has reviewed the request and the ruling on it. The Bucharest Tribunal has ordered his release in one form or another three times, while the Court of Appeal has definitively ruled that the DIICOT investigation must be carried out with him in pretrial detention.