Romanian prosecutors have arrested six men on charges of treason for allegedly seeking Russian help for a plot to overthrow the government in Bucharest. The group, named “Vlad the Impaler Command” after Romania’s medieval ruler who served as inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, included a 101-year-old retired general named Radu Theodoru, who is known in Romania for his virulent anti-Semitism. They “repeatedly contacted agents of a foreign power, located both on the territory of Romania and the Russian Federation”, antiterrorism prosecutors and the Romanian domestic spy agency SRI said on Thursday. The men were charged with “crimes of constituting an...
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