What assets do the ministers of the Cîţu Government have: from dignitaries with apartments in Paris to politicians with tens of thousands of euros invested in works of art?

Prime Minister Florin Cîţu has a house in Vâlcea and an apartment in Bucharest, but stands out for the 75 hectares of forest land inherited from his parents, which he owns together with his brother. The prime minister obtained 150,000 lei from the sale of wood in 2019, and has approximately 400,000 lei in his accounts, in addition to a loan of 303,000 euros.

Deputy Prime Minister Dan Barna is one of the wealthiest members of Cîţu’s cabinet. He owns three apartments in Sibiu and more than 1,000 square meters of hay. Barna has more than one million lei and more than 55,000 euros in mutual funds, but he also has a debt with the bank of 200,000 lei. The other deputy prime minister, Kelemen Hunor, has to his name three houses in Cluj and Harghita counties, two agricultural lands and three extra-urban lands, and on his account, some 300,000 lei. Kelemen Hunor has paintings by contemporary artists estimated at about 6,000 lei.

Virgil Popescu, “landowner”

However, most of the properties can be found at the Minister of Energy Virgil Popescu. He owns 6 urban lands, seven agricultural lands, three forest lands and two houses, all in Mehedinţi county, inherited or donated by his parents. The 73 square meter apartment in Bucharest belongs to his wife. They both own shares in various companies, which the minister loaned with almost 900,000 lei in 2020.

Bogdan Gheorghiu, Minister of Culture, stands out for having art objects of more than 30,000 euros, but also watches and jewelry of more than 13,000 euros, in addition to the apartment in Suceava, the house in Vadu Moldovei (Suceava) and three agricultural lands. . Raluca Turcan, the new head of Labor, is the co-owner of an apartment in Sibiu, has an agricultural land in the county of Constanza, jewels of 12,000 euros, and in the accounts, 40,000 lei and 25,000 euros.

Defense Minister Nicolae Ciucă has a single house in Baloteşti (Ilfov), two plots of land and bank loan debts of approximately 320,000 lei. On the other hand, the foreign technocrat, Bogdan Aurescu, has two apartments in Bucharest, a car from 2015, and in his accounts he has 320,000 lei and approximately 100,000 euros. Furthermore, the Minister of Education, Sorin Cîmpeanu, owns a house in Otopeni, an apartment and three cars (including a 1973 Fiat and a 1980 Dacia), and on the accounts, almost 50,000 lei.

Nazare, the indebted minister

The Finance Minister has a 2,500 square meter house in Focşani (Vrancea), but also three plots of land: two in Câmpeneasca, in the same county, and one in Brăila. In a previous declaration of assets of Nazaré, but as of February 2020, the current minister specified that he sold two land and a company for which he received 200,000 lei and 17,500 dollars. Without a car and with less than 10,000 lei in his accounts, Nazaré has a debt of 30,000 euros with an individual. Surprising is his amount in the accounts, given that the presence in various boards of directors, such as those of ROMATSA, CNAIR, CFR Călători, brought him approximately 15,000 lei per month in 2020. In 2019 he had income of 20,000 lei from the Ministry of Transport and the company Arcade Network SRL.

Discrepancies in USR-PLUS

According to the wealth declaration, the new Minister of the Economy, Claudiu Năsui, owns two apartments in France, one of 49 square meters, acquired in 2007, and another of 99 square meters, acquired in 2016. The rental income amounts to 12,663 euro. He has several accounts, totaling about 50,000 lei, 22,000 euros, and 10,000 dollars. Justice Minister Stelian Ion owns half an apartment in Constance and two cars, and has approximately 130,000 lei in his accounts. On the other hand, Vlad Voiculescu, the new Minister of Health, received in 2019 about 700,000 lei from a “bailiff’s office”, being his only income, while he has about 60,000 euros in his accounts. Voiculescu owns two urban lots in Dâmboviţa county and a “production space” in Brăneşti (Dâmboviţa county), and currently has to recover about 200,000 lei on loan. Cătălin Drulă (Transport) is the minister without a flat or a house, who only owns urban land and has about 135,000 lei in his accounts, while the Research Minister, Ciprian Teleman, stands out for his two cars, a 1999 Tico and a Opel Corsa 2004.

The dowry of the ministers of the UDMR

Cseke Attila has a house in Oradea, urban land in the same city, two cars (from 2017, 2019 respectively), approximately 100,000 lei and 25,000 euros in accounts, but also two loans, one for 76,000 lei and another for 5,000 lei. The income of the new Minister of Public Works in 2019 is the 146,000 lei collected from the Parliament and the 22,000 lei after the baptism of his son.

The Minister of the Environment, Tanczos Barna, together with his wife own a house in Sîncrăieni (Harghita) and five plots of land (two in the city and three outside the city) in the same village. He does not own any vehicle, and in his accounts he has around 400,000 lei, but also a debt of 300,000 lei with an individual, which he should pay back in 2024.