Proof: Getotac (Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan), leader of the Romanian Battlegroup Getica, served time in prison in Sweden.
Associated with Radu Hossu, the other founder of the Getica Romanian Legion, Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan is one of the most dangerous criminals at large in Romania.
Since around 2023, a self-titled armed group calling itself the Romanian Legion Getica or Romanian Battlegroup Getica has been terrorizing Romanians who dare to comment on the war in Ukraine, the aid sent there, or about how Radu Hossu collected 1 million euros on his personal Revolut through donations.
Attempting to copy a list of enemies of the people from Ukraine, they created The 5th Column, a list of targets they dubbed enemies of the people, based on their personal antipathies. As proof, the first person on that list is neither Putin nor anyone else from Russia. Only the president of our NGO, who has investigated them all these years, despite threats to his life and his family.
What is the Romanian Legion Getica - Romanian Battlegroup Getica?
The Romanian Legion Getica self-identifies as a paramilitary organization fighting in Ukraine, composed of Romanian speakers. But they admit they have also had activities on Romanian territory:
One of these activities was the attempted intimidation of the president of Patria Prima, whose wife they threatened and to whom they sent photos of his car and residence, accompanied by death threats. These are evidence in a criminal case, so we cannot present them here.
This group was initiated by 3 people, visible at that time at the founding of the organization's Telegram channel:
Radu Hossu, high school graduate, unemployed person from Brașov, domestic partner of the city’s former vice-mayor from USR, Flavia Boghiu, fundraiser as a private individual for Ukraine. Also, former campaign advisor to Allen Coliban and former candidate for the USR presidency.
And assumed illegal drugs user as he admitted:
Camelia – full name Camelia Ciocârlan – a friend of Radu Hossu, there is an image of the two of them on Facebook:
Radu Hossu intensely promoted the Getica organization, wearing patches with their name on various occasions and associating himself with it on social media:
Sergiu, full name Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan, alias Getotac, the spokesperson and leader of the Romanian Legion Getica. Sergiu also suffers from delusions of grandeur, explaining to Antena 3 TV Station some time ago that he was a secret agent.
Radu Hossu collected donations for the Romanian Legion Getica for a while, according to the organization's former website:
Also, Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan / Getotac admitted in an X Space from December 2025, which you can find here, that Radu Hossu donated money to finance mercenaries recruited by the group. In this Space, Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan admitted that he owns firearms, including in Romania, and not just any weapon, but a Kalashnikov. So, a perfectly illegal, armed group, formed of mercenaries recruited by Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan – Getotac, which claims to be fighting against the Russians in Ukraine. The Romanian police have been sleeping for 3 years despite multiple reports, even though it was simple to obtain information from the Swedish police, who gave us the case number after the name and the offense were mentioned.
You can make the same request to the respective court, you have all the data below, and I have also attached the response received for veracity.
How Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan (Getotac) ended up in prison: Details of a Scandinavian network
Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan, also known online as Getotac, was the initiator and leader of a criminal group that massively defrauded banks in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark in 2005. Originally from Romania, where he lived and had training in electronics, Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan traveled to Sweden in the spring of 2005 with a clear plan to commit cybercrimes.
The legal documents, in the original form in which they were sent by the judicial authorities in Sweden to Patria Prima, can be found here and here in pdf format.
Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan’s (Getotac) accomplices
To put his plan into action, Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan needed a team. His accomplices in this criminal case were:
Kim Mikael Olsson: A Swedish computer engineering student from the city of Borås. He provided accommodation for the Romanians in his small 33-square-meter apartment, ordered electronic equipment in his name, rented the cars used by the group, and translated the websites used for the attacks.
Constantin Răzvan Iancu: Another Romanian citizen, an electronics student at a university in Romania. Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan brought him to Sweden in July 2005 specifically because he needed someone with a steady hand for soldering electronic circuits onto the boards of the fraud devices.
Torcatoru: A Romanian citizen who accompanied Meseșan since his first arrival in Sweden in April. He actively helped with installing equipment on ATMs and manufacturing fake cards. Apparently, he was not caught, and this name is used to identify him.
Modus operandi: Advanced Skimming and Phishing
The operation led by Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan was particularly complex. The group purchased card readers, miniature video cameras, and white plastic cards with magnetic stripes from the internet. This equipment was installed by Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan and Torcatoru on ATMs in Borås, Ulricehamn, Falköping, Skara, and Vårgårda to steal victims’ card data and PIN codes.
The most elaborate hit orchestrated by Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan (Getotac) was at a Shell gas station on Skaraborgsvägen in Borås. There, he and Răzvan Iancu opened a payment terminal, removed the original equipment, and installed a prepared card reader right inside the pump, plus a camera above the keypad to film the codes. Meseșan then retrieved the information remotely on a laptop, thus managing to produce around 300 cloned cards.
In addition to ATM skimming, Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan also orchestrated phishing attacks. With the help of the Swede Mikael Olsson, who translated a webpage from English to Swedish, Meseșan sent fake emails claiming to be security messages from Svenska Handelsbanken. Thus, they obtained card data belonging to legitimate customers, which they used to buy various goods on the internet, including a Toshiba laptop necessary for subsequent skimming operations.
The final hits in Finland and Denmark
With hundreds of fake cards at their disposal, the group led by Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan (Getotac) began massive cash withdrawals. On September 25, 2005, Meseșan, Iancu, Olsson, and Torcatoru all four traveled by car to Turku (Åbo) in Finland.
There, making successive withdrawals, they managed to obtain the sum of 55,480 euros, although they attempted to withdraw a total of over 96,000 euros. Because many cards did not work in Finland, Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan decided to continue the frauds in Denmark. Meseșan, Iancu, and Olsson flew to Copenhagen on September 27, followed the next day by Torcatoru, who arrived by train.
In the Danish capital, Meseșan and his accomplices stole the massive sum of 444,529 Danish krones from various ATMs in an interval of less than two days.
Caught Red-Handed and the Conviction in Sweden
Unfortunately for Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan, he and Răzvan Iancu were caught red-handed by the Danish police on the evening of September 28, 2005, right while they were at an ATM. The fake cards and the stolen cash were found on them.
When he realized that his accomplices had been arrested, the Swede Mikael Olsson managed to flee by train back to Sweden with part of the stolen money (which he hid at his mother’s house), but he too was arrested by the police shortly after.
Meseșan was detained in Denmark and subsequently extradited to Sweden at the beginning of 2006.
The court in Borås, Sweden, tried the case and considered Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan the mastermind and the most involved member of this criminal operation, which they described as systematic and full of cunning. The official sentence received by Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan (Getotac) was the following:
Sentencing to 3 years of imprisonment for aggravated fraud (grovt bedrägeri) and attempted aggravated fraud.
Expulsion from Sweden and a legal ban on returning before March 1, 2016.
Mandatory payment of massive reparations to the victimized banks: 238,768 Swedish krones to SEB Kort AB, 108,762 krones to Svenska Handelsbanken, 65,587 krones to American Express, 797,376 krones to FöreningsSparbanken, and 228,021 krones to Nordea Bank.
Why we are 100% certain that Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan is Getotac
Update:
We now have confirmation from the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Sector 1 Court, through the fake complaint filed by Camelia Ciocârlan against the president of Patria Prima, that Sergiu Meseșan is Getotac; Camelia confesses in person. By the way, the order is one of dismissal; Camelia lied in the criminal complaint and for that she will pay costs and potential damages..
But we already knew; we investigated / pieced together the facts as follows:
Our initial suspicion started with that Sergiu, whom Radu Hossu named in the Telegram chat from the screenshot above. After a while, Radu Hossu edited his name to Getotac. So we had a Sergiu, linked to Getotac.
Then, some guys from Telegram, who were looking for pro-Ukrainian mercenaries on a Telegram channel, posted this, linking Getotac to Sergiu Meseșan. Suddenly, the story began to make sense. Sergiu is not exactly an extremely common name nowadays.
Then, following a police complaint, our president learned from an officer that his name was also Bogdan. We had the full name then.
Also in the early days, on the Getica Telegram, there was a recording of the same “Sergiu” responding to Radu Hossu’s message and together preparing a live stream, with the same purpose of collecting donations, the leitmotif of both their lives:
We’ve listened to numerous interviews with him, and the similarity of the voice is striking. You can find a longer interview here of Getotac with Remus Cernea and Alex Craiu—two aggressive pro-Ukraine and anti-Romania propagandists. Do you hear that very specific voice, the accent, the intonation?
It is the exact same voice as in the interview a Swedish radio station conducted at the time with Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan. If you listen to the podcast titled Marcus Qvennerstedt, Criminal Inspector, Financial Police, they interview Sergiu Meseșan at one point. It’s the same voice. I have saved that specific passage below, and the full interview can be found here.
What did Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan do after prison?
We know he started posing as a cyber expert, attending various conferences in Spain after moving to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where he has been introducing himself as a co-founder of Open Data Security since around 2016
Later, in 2021, Sergiu Bogdan Mesesan was undisturbed as he conducted a security conference at the University of Bucharest. It’s shocking that they invite ex-prisoners to address students, don't you think?
After that, until 2023 and the Telegram message, his trail went cold. Apparently, honest work did not go very well, so he preferred to return to donation fraud, human trafficking, possibly arms trafficking, and threatening those who expose his crimes.
This is Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan, Getotac, associated with Radu Hossu, Camelia Ciocârlan, and promoted by various publications and individuals in Romania, from whom the Patria Prima Association will demand moral damages after this criminal is brought before justice again.
Anyone with any information about Sergiu Bogdan Meseșan and the other individuals mentioned here is requested to message us at info at patriaprima dot org. It is unacceptable that in the Romania of 2026 there exists a paramilitary group led by a psychopath with a criminal record, who posts such content on social media and recruits mercenaries unhindered:
Isn’t it astounding how the case file filed in March 2025 at the 7th Police Precinct in Bucharest against this criminal by the President of Patria Prima is still stagnating? Are they waiting for this fanatic to kill someone? When is enough enough in Romania, even though the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime has acknowledged to us since July 2025 that they are keeping these psychopaths under surveillance?
