The Bucharest Sector 5 Court ordered on Friday the 30-day preventive arrest of Bogdan Peschir, considered the financier of Calin Georgescu's campaign on TikTok.
Peschir is accused by the General Prosecutor's Office of committing the crime of corrupting voters through electronic means of communication (265 material acts).
Specifically, prosecutors say that Bogdan Peschir offered, during last year's electoral campaign, payments worth over 879,000 dollars on the TikTok app, in the form of "gifts", and transfers of hundreds of thousands of RON through the Revolut application, to 265 people, in order to persuade them to vote for Georgescu.
The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) shows that the financing of TikTok influencers was ensured through the FameUp platform (dedicated to monetizing promotional activities in the online environment), on which the advertising opportunity was published, along with well-defined descriptions. "One of the methods of attracting Romanian influencers to collaborate in promoting Calin Georgescu's candidacy was contacting them by email by the company (...) of South African origin, which offered the sum of 1,000 euros for the distribution of a video clip made by them", the SRI informs.
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