He was the head of the Presidential Administration in the current mandate of president Traian Băsescu and now he is the candidate for the Presidential Palace on behalf of Elena Udrea’s party: Cristian Diaconescu.
His wife is the former CEO of Eximbank, the state ownd bank and she caused a significant damage to the institution.
Cristian Diaconescu is now a candidate in the presidential elections on the President’s behalf despite saying that he would never go to Traian Băsescu.
"I chose my options by myself and when I want to and I do not have to give any explanations", Cristi Diaconescu argues.
Criminal case file on the name of Diaconescu’s wife. What happened to the file
The media wrote in 2005, that Diaconescu had hidden the fact that his wife was making hundreds of millions of lei a month, 800 million to be precise in monthly salary.
Mariana Diaconescu was CEO of Eximbank, a state owned bank for four years.
In 2001, Cristian Diaconescu became state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Nastase Government and his wife was appointed CEO of Eximbank.
Subsequently, a report by the Court of Accounts argues that the management of Eximbank incurred a damage of 6.4 million to the state.
DNA opened a file in this case targeting Mariana Diaconescu charging her with huge damages, Diaconescu’s wife being criminally prosecuted. Then the DNA closed the case and the file was gone as if it had never existed.
The current mayor of Sibiu and possibly candidate in the presidential elections, Klaus Iohannis, is accused of illegally having transferred ownership to a German national based on forged documents.
Therefore, in 2006, Klaus Werner Iohannis was being investigated by the DNA for influence peddling, the mayor being basically the head of a specialized network of illegal restitutions of buildings.
Klaus Iohannis argues that he has bought six homes with the money earned from his salary as a professor and as a mayor. According to his declaration of assets, the mayor of Sibiu and his wife have bought since 1992 up to now six homes – three apartments and three houses that he is now renting.
Asked with what money he managed to achieve this performance, Iohannis replied: “With my own money”.
"It is, if you want a very simple model. With the relatively little money I had, I started with my wife from a four-room apartment that we bought with the money from the wedding. With that money and the money collected from tutoring, wages, we made the purchase, then rented it, then gathered another money then made another purchase... " the mayor said.
In 2012, Iohannis earned from the Sibiu Town hall a salary of 39.000 lei and had incomes from rents amounting to 114.000 lei.
Olguţa Vasilescu (PSD): Iohannis, is the best candidate to go against the left
The Craiova mayor from the PSD believes that Iohannis is the best candidate in the presidential elections to go against the PSD.
"From our point of view he would be the best candidate to go against the left," said the mayor of Craiova, PSD member Olguţa Lia Vasilescu Monday during the Daily Summary show on Antena 3.
The Gojdu inheritance: Who assigned a billion dollars’ worth of patrimony
The fortune left by Emanoil Gojdu to Romania came into possession of Hungary and Romania ceded all claims. Specifically, the Foreign Minister at the time, Mihai Razvan Ungureanu signed an agreement ceding Gojdu wealth to Hungary, which nationalized the property in 1952.
The agreement waived Romania’s claims over the fortune.
Emanoil Gojdu was a successful lawyer and a Transylvanian patriot of Aromanian origin, his family was originally from Moscopole. Gojdu was a tireless fighter for the rights of Romanians in Transylvania.