Codreanu will be placed on trial in a week or ten days on charges of high treason based on an alleged terrorist plot against King Carol and the Rumanian Government. A formal indictment, including 40 pages of typewritten charges founded on documents seized during the nation-wide raids after the arrest of Codreanu and 200 of his lieutenants on Easter Sunday, was filed on Friday night by the military prosecutor who will present the Government’s case before a court martial.
A verdict of from five to 20 years at hard labor may be imposed upon Codreanu if he is convicted of the charges, which involve a plot to undermine the authority of the King and Government and paralyze the nation’s defense forces. Mysterious foreign sources furnished the Iron Guard with funds to finance its terrorist activities, the indictment charges. It claims that 45,000,000 leis ($337,500) was received from abroad in the month preceding the December, 1937, elections, apparently to bribe voters and election officials.
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