Călin Georgescu's cellmates: three drug traffickers with nearly two tonnes of drugs
Former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu has been housed at CRAP alongside three men arrested in drug trafficking cases. Their groups are alleged to have moved tonnes of cocaine and cannabis through Europe with Albanian connections.
Georgescu imprisoned alongside traffickers with international connections
Former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu was arrested on Tuesday by magistrates of the Bucharest Court of Appeal in a fraud case handled by DIICOT, with damages exceeding one million euros. Immediately after the court ruling, police collected him from his home and took him to the Capital Police's Detention and Preventive Arrest Centre (CRAP).
According to Gândul sources, Georgescu was placed in a cell with three other people and is refusing food provided by the authorities. His three cellmates are Tiberiu Marian Bîzu, Alexandru Costin Muraru and Laurențiu Stan — all arrested in separate drug trafficking cases.
Bîzu and the international drug transport network
Tiberiu Marian Bîzu was detained on 24 August following raids at 16 addresses in Timișoara, Satu Mare, Oradea, Câmpulung Moldovenesc and in Maramureș, Timiș and Mehedinți counties, carried out by DIICOT prosecutors and DCCO police officers.
According to investigators, beginning in September 2023, five suspects — four men and a commercial international transport company — formed a pyramid-type organised criminal group. The organisation transported from Spain to several European states hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, cannabis and cannabis resin, using lorry drivers.
The case was finalised following judicial cooperation conducted between 2023 and 2026 with authorities from France, Spain, Italy and Germany, through Eurojust and European Investigation Orders. Investigators from the four states documented four transports which led to the seizure of 114 kg of cocaine, 228 kg of cannabis and 1,376 kg of cannabis resin — in total approximately 1,719 kg of drugs. Their estimated value amounts to approximately 9.6 million euros wholesale and approximately 25 million euros at retail level, according to EUDA market values.
The group to which Bîzu belonged also provided transport services to Albanian drug trafficking groups, ensuring logistics for various quantities and types of risk and high-risk drugs.
Muraru and Operation "1 Mai"
Alexandru Costin Muraru was detained after DIICOT prosecutors and anti-drug police arrested 12 people on 21 and 22 April. Members of his group are accused of forming in Bucharest during 2025 an organised crime network focused on the production and sale of drugs on the domestic market.
Towards the end of 2025, four other accomplices — three women and a man — involved in the sale and production of drugs joined the criminal group.
The operation to dismantle the network was generically named "1 Mai". Searches carried out at addresses in Bucharest and in Ilfov, Ialomița, Argeș and Vâlcea counties led to the seizure of approximately 14.2 kg of cannabis, 1.4 kg of cannabis resin, 1 kg of cocaine, 90 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms, over 480 bottles of Isolate CBD Oil liquid in various concentrations, cannabis seeds, grinders and precision electronic scales. Two indoor cannabis cultivation operations were also discovered: the first with 161 partially dried plants and 143 immature plants, the second with 176 plants in various stages of growth.
Additionally, 173,500 lei, 12,410 euros, 500 dollars and nine digital wallets with cryptocurrencies worth 35,000 euros were confiscated, along with data storage devices and GPS units.
Stan, the third cellmate
Laurențiu Stan is Georgescu's third detention cellmate. He is also held in preventive arrest for drug trafficking, but according to Gândul sources, there are currently few public details concerning the charges for which he ended up behind bars.
Together, the three men are accused of trafficking in total nearly two tonnes of drugs, with connections extending from Albanian networks to transport routes crossing several countries in Western Europe.
Source: Gândul