Marin Ceauşescu was a Romania

Romania

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n economist and diplomat, the older brother of Communist Romania

Communist Romania

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's President

President of Romania

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 Nicolae Ceauşescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...

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He graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest

Bucharest

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. Starting in 1974, Ceauşescu headed the Romanian Economic Agency in Vienna

Vienna

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. He was believed to have been the conduit through whom Nicolae allegedly transferred millions of United States dollar

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s into Swiss

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 bank accounts. He was found hanged

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 in the basement of the Romanian Embassy in Vienna, three days after his brother was executed in the Romanian Revolution of 1989

Romanian Revolution of 1989

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. The police said it was a suicide.

Austria's Interior Minister

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, Franz Loschnak, said that Austrian officials suspected that Marin Ceauşescu worked for the Romanian security service

Securitate

The Securitate was the secret police agency of Communist Romania. Previously, the Romanian secret police was called Siguranţa Statului. Founded on August 30, 1948, with help from the Soviet NKVD, the Securitate was abolished in December 1989, shortly after President Nicolae Ceaușescu was...

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He left two daughters, Mihaela (m. Moraru) and Gabriela.

External links

Marian Ghiţeanu, "Marin Ceauşescu a fost împins spre sinucidere" ("Marin Ceauşescu Was Goaded into Suicide"), in Ziarul