The National Sports and Youth Union (SNST) claims that as an athlete, Minister Eduard Novak “forgot” to notify the Ministry of Sports of his return to activity and continues to receive a life annuity.

Eduard Novak resumed sports activities, but still receives a life annuity

SNST notes that the athlete Novak was legally obliged to inform the ministry about his return to activity. According to Art. 64 para. (10) of Law No. 69/2000, when returning to activity as an active athlete, the payment of the life annuity is suspended.

“Sportsman Novak Karol-Eduard continues to receive a life annuity, despite the fact that he has resumed sports training. In fact, the minister of sports never had any real intention to leave the sport, he only wanted to raise money, and now he is engaged in sports training, but also receives a pension, which is given to those who quit sports.

While Romanian sport struggles with poverty and budgets are lower than ever, the minister collects monthly salaries and pensions and trains constantly. So, during this period when we are told that there is no money for anything, the named Novak Eduard continues to receive his monthly life annuity of 16,635 lei, although he has returned to sports.

Novak is often absent from the office, absent for a long time, busy with his own sports training. Announced personal goals: 2023 World Championships in Glasgow and 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.

In the Ministry of Sports, the minister’s activities are pushed to the background in favor of sports training. Solving problems in sports is postponed, and despite his ministerial salary, Eduard Novak is increasingly involved in training and publicly publishes photos from training camps, challenging his subordinates who work, as well as athletes, to whom he shows extraordinary training conditions, from which he benefits.

There was the same difference in attitude towards coaches and employees subordinate to the Ministry of Sports. Eduard Novak demanded the forced dismissal of all those who had reached the age of majority, forbidding them to continue their activities, even if they wanted to continue working.

While his father holds the top spot in the Premier League rankings, Novak Karolyi topped the Sports Ministry’s Premier League list at the age of 72.

According to the sources, we learn that the father was not involved in obtaining the result and was not nominated by the FRC for the award, this award was agreed with the head of the National Paralympic Committee, who also offered himself and collected the sum of 62,363 lei, moving to the Premier -State as a coach/teacher, even though he doesn’t have that quality.

Eduard Novak always wanted to get a new championship at the Paralympic Games, but he decided to tempt the Romanian state with a life annuity. He took money every month, but he constantly did sports.

Although he returned to action, he announced his personal goals: the 2023 World Championships in Glasgow and the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, Novak forgot to notify the ministry to give up his retirement. This is stated in the SNST press releasereports News.ro.

Thus, the SNST says it is seeking the intervention of Parliament to “establish the illegality of the Ministry of Sports”.

“Based on the powers established by Law No. 94/1992, the Youth and Sports Committee of the Senate and the Youth and Sports Committee of the Chamber of Deputies must request an audit of the Accounting Chamber to verify procedures and violations regarding the awarded prizes and recovery of damages caused to the sports budget.

It would be legal and moral for the athlete Novak Carroll-Edouard, aware of the fact that he holds a public office that gives him a role in decision-making regarding the approval and granting of the life annuity, to wait until the end of his mandate as Minister of Sports and only then submit application for a life annuity to avoid a conflict of interest with his position, precisely because he approved his own application for the maximum life annuity, and his and his father’s remuneration.” notes SNST.

Eduard Novak, life annuity 16,635 lei per month

Last year, SNST announced that Eduard Novak had set a maximum lifetime pension (16,635 lei per month) at the same level as that received by Romanian sports legends such as Nadia Comaneci, Elisabeta Lipa, Ivan Pacaicin or Gabriela Szabo.

Then the Minister of Sports reacted and declared that he “fully meets the conditions for granting a life annuity.”