The current prime minister, Marcel Çolaku, has a revolutionary credentials since 1992, when he was a small businessman in Buzău and a student at the controversial Environmental University. To obtain this first patent, which many transition opportunists were hunting for, he submitted a file of holographic claims about his involvement in the revolution, as well as other evidence he deemed relevant, according to the Recorder, which publishes and analyzes the documents.

Key findings from the Recorder’s investigation:

• Marcel Cholaku, who was three decades ago, supports his thesis of heroism in the Revolution through the many inconsistencies of time and place. The decisive role he ascribes to himself in the statements is not confirmed by other participants, nor by photographs, nor by relevant documents.
• One of the signatures that made him a revolutionary with legal documents is suspected to be a forgery.
• The prime minister has given contradictory information about his place of work since 1989, when he claims to have started his actions against the communist government: in his revolutionary dossier he suggests he worked at a factory in Buzău, and in his CV he says he was the minister of law in In 1988-1990, Intreprindea Electronica București appeared.
• Although he publicly states that he did not and does not seek to benefit from participation in the Revolution, archival cadastral documents show that he was the owner of a plot of land obtained under a revolutionary act and then sold in 2007. in the near future he could benefit from retroactive allowances of more than €40,000.

Read the Recorder’s full investigation into the case of revolutionary Marcel Cholaku here