Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke signed on Wednesday the appointment of a new State Counselor in his office: Teodora Olena Preoteas, daughter-in-law of Victor Ponta, formerly Director General of the Ministry of Investments and European Projects (MIPE).

This is reported by HotNews.ro sourcesTheodora Preoteasa is a good expert, as she negotiated with Brussels on the operational programs in the mandate of the former USR MIPE Minister Christian Guinea.

Teodora Preoteaza is Victor Ponta’s girlfriend. In 2010, when he married Claudio Preoteas, the groom’s godparents were, according to local media, Victor Ponta and Daciana Sarbu, and the bride’s Oana Niculescu Mizil.

Claudio Preoteasa’s father – Konstantin Preoteasa – was at that time the general director of the Department of Social Assistance and Child Protection of Gorja.

Claudio Preoteasa was a member of the Government Control Body under the leadership of Victor Ponta until 2004, “after which he continued his career in Bucharest, under the leadership of the PD-L government, as a member of the control body of the Office of the Capitalization of Public Assets. , as well as the vice-president of the appeal commission of the Romanian Football Federation,” writes Gorj Exclusiv. In 2007, he worked in the office of MEP Daciana Sarbu, after which in 2008 he “became active” in the Commission of Justice, Internal Affairs and Civil Liberties of the European Parliament, reports Ziarul Gorjului.

In April 2009, Preoteasa was appointed Vice President of the Romanian Foreign Investment Agency, with the rank of Deputy Secretary of State (Source). In 2012, the local press wrote that his name would be popular for the position of prefect Gorzh (source here and here).

Teodora Preoteas – daughter of Prime Minister Victor Ponta, was accepted as the head of service at AM POS Environment on January 13, 2013, the order on her appointment to this position was signed by the Minister of the Environment Rowana Plumb. In 2014, Teodora Preoteasa became the director of the Ministry of European Funds.

What wealth did the Preoteaza couple have last year

Last year, she received more than 129,000 lei as MIPE General Director Teodora Preoteas.

Her husband, Claudio Preoteasa, took a job at ANCOM, the communications regulator, where he received a salary of 82,355 lei last year. He also received allowances of more than 10,000 lei from the National Employment Agency and another 15,244 lei as an insurance agent at Generali Romania.

The Preoteas couple owns 3 apartments and 3 urban plots in Bucharest and another agricultural plot of 1300 square meters in the town of Runcu, Gorge.

They also own an Audi, 2009, precious metals with an estimated value of almost 40,000 lei, and last year they collected 12,000 euros from the sale of the car.

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Shadow government: what are the fortunes of 27 people in Prime Minister Chuke’s office

There were up to 27 people around General Nikolay Chuke who advised him, some close ones he brought from the Ministry of Defense, others he inherited and who make up the prime minister’s office. It can be called a shadow government, given that there are already 22 ministers in the executive branch.

The head of the ministerial office is Mircea Abrudan, the first vice-president of PNL Cluj and a close associate of Emil Boc, and the director of the cabinet is Paula Cristea, a major general in the reserve and close to Nicolae Chuke, for whom she was an adviser in the Ministry of Defense.

The office also has 4 other Secretaries of State, 11 State Counselors and another 10 Honorary Counselors who, unlike State Counsellors, do not receive money from the government for their services.

HotNews.ro presented its assets in the following articles:

• The head of the Chancellery, Mircea Abrudian, has surpassed Chuke in terms of income / Dan Karbunaru, Government Spokesman, dividends of more than 120,000 euros by Calea Europeana
• Adeline Dan, with a declared income of only 2,650 lei per year, bought a plot of land with an area of ​​more than 6,600 square meters / Aleksandra Blaha, the former head of the cadastre, lent 766,000 lei to someone