With accounts full with money, credits from banks or creditors themselves, the hopefuls for a MEP post reveal their wealth statements submitted to the Central Electoral Bureau with their application.

Carmen Avram and Rareş Bogdan made nice money from Antena 3 and Realitatea. Norica Nicolai and Siegfried Mureşan put something aside during their mandate as MEPs. Traian Basescu has invested in state securities of considerable value. Rovana Plumb, Claudiu Manda and Vasile Blaga have significant debts, some to banks, others to individuals. Cristian Buşoi has borrowed from the companies he is associated with.

Candidates’ fortune

Carmen Avram, 2nd place on the PSD list

She owns a house of 144 sqm in Voluntari with her husband whose name is mentioned and an apartment in Bucharest, 78 sqm, and a holiday home in Costesti, Valcea, 50 sqm.

Also on the name of her husband are three cars, a 1971 Triumph Spitfire, a Jeep Wrangler, from 1981, and a Renault Clio 2013.

Carmen Avram has 40,000 euros in accounts, along with $ 24,000, 48,238 lei, also 45,395 euros in an investment account. Moreover, she also has two credit cards worth 57,500 lei and two personal loans of 183,757 lei, in total.

The PSD candidate obtained 294,000 lei, or about € 62,500, from Intact Media and Antena 3. Being employed in the Dan Voiculescu trust, her husband, Adrian Ursu, earned 410,624 lei. He also earned 25,000 lei from educational projects at the Povestasii Association, where Carmen Avram is vice-president.

Cristian Terheş, 4th on PSD list

Priest Cristian Terheş has a 123 sq m house in Măriuş, Satu Mare, a 53 sqm apartment in Zalău and one of 81 sqm in Oradea on behalf of his wife.

Terheş has nearly $ 57,000 in his accounts, while his wife’s accounts are  of $ 77,626, 31,891 euros and 3,865 lei. The wife also possesses $ 170,000 worth of papers at Chase bank.

He also earned $ 80,000 last year as a business intelligence director at General Orthocare Irvine, California, and his wife from the same source nearly 40,000 dollars. As priest in St. John Baptist Romanian Catholic Mission, has received almost $ 4,500.

Rareş Bogdan, 1st on the PNL list

He has a 9.100 sqm plot in Alba Iulia, and a 2,349 sqm plot in Voluntari, which is owned together with his wife. Rareş Bogdan owns a 100 sqm apartment in Cluj and a 321 sqm house in Voluntari, a building under construction and for which he has taken a loan.

According to the declaration of assets submitted with the candidacy, he has paintings worth 200,000 euros, clocks worth 200,000 euros and jewelry worth 150,000 euros.

A credit of 276,000 euros appears on his wife’s behalf, while he contracted another one of 72,200 euros.

On the revenue side, Rareş Bogdan earned 276,000 lei from Media Realitatea in 2018, or about 58,700 euros, and received dividends of 280,854 lei from Trend Communication, where he has shares worth 30%.

He also had an image contract worth 166,615 lei with Phoenicia Express of businessman Mohammad Murad, who is one of Realitatea TV’s boss’ (Cozmin Gusa) closest friends.

Dacian Cioloş, 1st place on the USR-PLUS Alliance

The former prime minister and European commissioner does not have an impressive wealth. He owns an apartment and a residential house in Bucharest, with an area of ​​92 and 144 square meters, and a holiday home in Mărişel, Cluj, of 98 sqms, under construction.

Dacian Cioloş has 72,170 euros, 22,160 lei in his accounts. He obtained 20,369 euros from being a consultant to the World Bank in 2018.

He also mentioned in the wealth statement personal loans of 53,000 euros, out of which 43,500 euros are for his brother. Cioloş lent 11,700 lei to Equilibre Connection.

Traian Basescu, 1st place on the PMP list

The former president has invested in government securities of the Ministry of Finance, whose current value is 1.5 million lei and 94.863 dollars.

Basescu also has shares in Romgaz currently worth 81,954 lei, of which he received dividends of 19,183 lei in 2018.

Basescu has in his accounts 73,000 lei, 77,000 euros, and 4,900 dollars. Last year, he received 184,680 lei as former president’s allowance, and a pension of 53,860 lei. His wife, Maria, earned 60,000 as Nana’s land manager, through her daughter’s, Ioana Basescu’s Notary Bureau.

MEPs with full accounts

The Brussels job has come with money in the accounts of MEPs, whose annual allowance is almost 81,000 euros. Norica Nicolai, ALDE MEP, has 568,000 euros in her accounts.

Siegfried Muresan (PNL) declared 561,864 euros, and his party colleague, Adina Vălean, 313,520 euros. Cristian Buşoi, also from PNL, has also declared accounts of 180,000 euros, 21,000 dollars, and 578,887 lei.

Corina Cretu, who is now running for Pro Romania, has almost 55,000 euros in accounts. From the position of European commissioner, she earned 208,356 euros last year as an European commissioner.

Candidates in debt

Credits and loans are normal  for the candidates for the European Parliament as well. Even if she has no declared accounts or other valuable assets, Rovana Plumb, number 1 on the PSD list, has to pay by 2030 a credit of 800,000 euros contracted in 2007. From last year’s ministry, she won almost 130,000 lei. Andi Cristea from PSD also has a credit of 100,000 euros.

Varujan Vosganian, of ALDE, has declared a credit of 130,000 euros with a deadline in 2032, and his colleague Andrei Gerea, one of 170,000 euros, due in 2037.

Cristian Ghinea (USR-PLUS) declared two credits of 29,757 euros and 172,000 lei, due in 2035 and 2045 respectively. Also from the USR-PLUS List, Dragoş Tudorache also has two credits totaling 357,000 euros.

Eugen Tomac, from PMP, also said he had a 90,000 credit, but he did not specify the currency, but the maturity is next year.

And Vasile Blaga, from PNL, has declared debts of 1,100,000 lei that he has to pay until 2022.

From PSD, Claudiu Manda is also 121,000 euros in debt, and Dan Nica, 75,000 euros.

Candidates who have credited individuals or firms

There are some candidates who have lent money to others. Cristian Buşoi, from PNL, has granted over 2.1 million lei to European Business Target, a company he is associated with. He also gave EUR 143,000 loan to the Libertas Notary Bureau, where he and his wife earned 1.12 million lei from notarial activity and legal services.

Dragos Pâslaru, USR-PLUS, gave a person a loan of 490,000 lei, while 121,368 lei went to the company to where he is employed, Civitta Strategy Consulting.

Source: HotNews (translation TFP)