Adrian Tsutsuianu, a former member of the PSD who joined the Pro Romania party founded by Victor Ponta, where he currently serves as vice president, was appointed on Tuesday as the deputy general secretary of the government at the rank of secretary of state, according to the decision of the liberal prime minister Minister Nikolae Chuka.

The decision to appoint Adrian Tsutsuianu as a member of the government was published on Tuesday in the Official Gazette.

Expelled from the PSD at the end of 2018 due to differences with Liviu Dragnea, Adrian Tsutsuianu said he is in discussions with Marian Neatzu, Paul Stanescu, but will also discuss his political plans with Gabriela Firea.

He later joined Pro-România, Victor Ponta’s party, where he is now national vice-president, according to this year’s declaration of interests.

It should be noted that the general secretary of the government at the rank of minister is Marian Neatsu, who was also expelled from the PSD in November 2018 as a result of the coup attempt against Dragni, being one of the initiators of the letter of the disaffected, who demanded his resignation from the party leadership.

After being expelled from the PSD and moving to Victor Ponta’s party, Pro Romania, Marian Neatsu was appointed Secretary General of the Government on December 7, 2021, on the proposal of the PSD leader, Marcel Čolaku.

Regarding the past of Marian Neash, who was sentenced in February 2016 to a six-month suspended prison term on charges of conflict of interest because he allegedly hired his daughter in the parliamentarian’s office, Çolaku said the conviction “exceeded the law”.

Adrian Tsutsuianu, accused in 2017 by former NLL leader Ludovic Orban of ties to Russia, as he was a lawyer for Russians from Mechel

In 2017, when he was defense minister, Adrian Tsutsuianu, a lawyer by profession, was accused by the then PNL leader Ludovic Orbán of ties to Russia because he was a lawyer for the Russians from Mechelu who bought the Tirgovishte plant.

Adrian Tsucuianu said his law firm and most likely he himself had represented the Mechel group at some point in several cases, but Mr Orbán’s interpretation was “incoherent” and the allegation of his ties to Russia “stupid”. .

What is the wealth of Adrian Tsutsuanu: Income of more than 380,000 lei as a lawyer and associate professor at the University of Wallachia

Last year, Adrian Țuțianu received an income of 85,677 lei as a doctoral lecturer at Valahia University in Tirgoviste and another 296,286 lei as a lawyer at the law firm SCA Țuțianu Mureșan.

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His wife, Carmen Elena Tsutsuianu, collected 100,640 lei as an external state auditor of the Chamber of Accounts. Both also declared rental income of more than 55,000 lei.

The two Tsutsuianu spouses have several apartments in Tirgoviste and Bucharest, as well as a lot inside the village, forest or agricultural land in Dambovitsa County, as well as in Bucharest.

The Tsusuyan family also owns a Volkswagen Passat and another 2015 Polo, as well as a 2019 Goldoni Star tractor.

Last summer, the Tsutsuyanu family made a bilateral promise to sell the apartment, for which they received a partial payment of 90,940 lei and sold the land inside the city for 25,000 lei to Tsutsuyanu Bianca Maria.

In the declaration of interests, Adrian Tsutsuianu stated that he is a partner in SC Ramif Prod SRL Dâmbovița, in which he owns 40,000 shares worth 400,000 lei. Tsutsuianu is a lawyer at the Dâmbovița Bar Association, the National Vice-President of Pro Romania and the President of Pro Romania Dâmbovița.