Houses, land, luxury watches, jewelry, high consulting revenues

Villas and lands in the country and abroad, jewelry, paintings, luxury watches, bank or outside bank accounts, high revenues from consulting activities can be found in the statements of wealth submitted by the 11 candidates for the presidential elections in May.

Unlike previous elections, independent candidates ‘lead’ in front of ‘party’ in terms of assets.

Thus, in terms of properties highlights the Romanian-American businessman John-Ion Banu-Muscel with villas and apartments in Romania and the United States, 74 hectares of land in the country, but also a farm in America, on an area of ​​135 hectares.

He is followed by Victor Ponta – three apartments in Bucharest, Istanbul and the United Arab Emirates and Daniel Funeriu – two apartments in Romania, a house in Germany and 50 hectares in Timiș.

When it comes to income, all the independents are located in the top, followed by the candidates supported by the ‘small’ parties: John-Ion Banu-Muscel-over $ 300,000, Daniel Funeriu-over 150,000 euros (mainly from consulting activities), Cristian Terheș-99,000 euros, Lavinia Șandru-over 300,000 lei (more than the author).

Instead, the first ranked in polls are not so good for wealth.

Crin Antonescu has no income, his wife with numerous properties and hundreds of thousands of euros in accounts. Nicușor Dan is renting, but he has a valuable land at Predeal. George Simion has no properties and is based on the parliamentary salary and the gifts received at the baptism of the child, while Elena Lasconi has loans to be returned to banks.

We present the assets of the 11 candidates in the presidential elections in May, in the order presented from the website of the Central Electoral Bureau:

Nicușor Dan

The current general mayor of the capital owns a land of 7,460 sqm in Predeal, bought in 2007, but lives in Bucharest. He also owns an old car from 1986, the Citroen brand, a bank account with 439,000 lei and granted a person a loan of 20,000 euros.

Instead, Nicușor Dan contracted three bank loans in a total amount of 152,000 euros.

In the declaration of wealth, he also mentioned donations received from dozens of people to support the election campaign, in a total amount of about 1.2 million lei, to which are added 659,000 lei received from the Permanent Electoral Authority, representing the reimbursement of the expenses incurred in the campaign for the local elections of 2024.

In terms of income, Nicușor Dan passed the income received last year for the position of mayor of the Capital – 296,000 lei.

Crin Antonescu

The candidate of the Romania before (PSD – PNL – UDMR) passed in the declaration of wealth two apartments in Bucharest (96 sqm and 205 sqm) and a parking place (31 sqm), two other houses in Prahova county (84 sqm and 43 sqm), to which are added three lands in Prahova county (3,942 sqm, 250 sqm), Being wife, Adina Vălean, or held together.

The family also has three cars (BMW, Mercedes, Kia), and Adina Vălean a collection of jewelry – valued at 18,000 euros, but also accounts in banks in Romania and Belgium, with about 335,000 euros and government securities worth 98,000 euros.

In the last year, Crin Antonescu had no income, but Adina Vălean received consistent amounts as a former European Commissioner (153,000 euros) and MEP (46,000 euros), plus 20,000 euros (day), 15,000 euros (missions).

Victor Ponta

Former prime minister and leader of the PSD, Victor Ponta is applying for the presidential elections in the position of independent. He owns an apartment in Bucharest (95 sqm), an apartment bought in 2021 in Istanbul – Turkey (200 sqm) and another purchased in 2022 in the United Arab Emirates (82 sqm), a Smart brand car, but also watches worth 20,000 euros acquired between 2023 – 2024.

Ponta has several bank accounts, with about 130,000 euros and granted the PSD Dâmbovița organization a loan of 190,000 lei (38,000 euros).

In terms of revenues, he passed a salary of 240,000 lei collected from the Chamber of Commerce (without mentioning the function he had) and a salary of 19,295 lei, without saying the entity from which he received this money, most likely from the consultancy, he holding the company VP Projects Advisers SRL (according to the statement).

Elena Lasconi

In the declaration of wealth Elena Lasconi mentioned seven lands (two agricultural – 57,500 sqm, a forest land – 2,500 sqm, three urban lands – 6,700 sqm and an extra -urban land of 500 sqm), three apartments (65 sqm, 70 sqm, 58 sqm), a dwelling house of 98 sqm, but also an Opel brand manufactured in 2007.

Lasconi has to return two bank loans of over 388,000 lei.

In terms of revenues, Elena Lasconi specified the salary collected as mayor of Câmpulung – 141,000 lei, and the husband won in the last fiscal year 82,000 lei, being a counselor at the Chamber of Deputies.

Cristian Terheș

Currently MEP, Cristian Terheș mentioned in the declaration of wealth five urban lands located in Sălaj and Bihor counties, three apartments (53 sqm, 81 sqm and 53 sqm), two cars (Toyota Camry and Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross), six bank accounts (approximately 560,000 lei and 50,000 euros), being opened in banks in the US state of California.

Terheș granted four loans to the Romanian Conservative National Party, with a cumulative value of 220,000 lei, 45,000 euros and 95,000 USD, mentioning the valuable papers held by the wife directly – $ 50,000.

In terms of revenues, Cristian Terheș declared an annual salary from the European Parliament worth 99,000 euros, and his wife has an annual salary of $ 50,000 as ‘and Compliance Manager’ to General Orthoare, Irvine, California, USA.

Lavinia Șandru

PD deputy from 2004 to 2008 during the mandate of Traian Basescu, the former wife of Darius Valcov, is applying from the Social Liberal Humanist Party, founded by Dan Voiculescu.

In the declaration of wealth, Lavinia Șandru mentioned an apartment in Bucharest (98 sqm), two cars (Jeep and Skoda), jewelry and art objects worth 12,000 euros, several bank accounts with about 41,000 euros and 700,000 lei, plus 90,000 euros placed in an investment fund. To these are added state securities ‘treasure’ worth over one million lei and government securities ‘Fidelis’ – 100,000 euros.

In terms of revenues, Lavinia Șandru passed in the declaration of wealth important amounts: 165,000 lei – copyright from Antena 3, 24,000 lei – Copyright at the National Theater ‘Mihai Eminescu’ Timișoara, 12,690 lei – copyright and 10,716 lei – Salary outstanding as president at the European Ecological Initiative, 10,000 lei – 10,000 lei – Entertainment Bucharest, 55,000 lei – copyright and 26,616 lei – salary for the position of general manager at Stratcom Media & Film Bucharest, 10,000 lei – copyright from Movingframe SRL.

She also received 114,430 lei – dividends from Stratcom Media & Film and 99,504 lei from Movingframe SRL.

George Simion

The gold leader has no properties, mentioning in the declaration of wealth only the sum of 60,000 euros received at the baptism party organized in the city of Gura Humorului, Suceava county, as well as a donation received from a person, for the election campaign, worth 50,000 euros.

Last year, he opened a bank account where he has 250,000 lei. He received from the Chamber of Deputies a salary of almost 137,000 lei, while the wife has so far benefited from an allowance for raising the child in the amount of 15,000 lei, and previously received a salary of 8,000 lei from the Ministry of Education.

John-Ion Banu-Muscel

Banu-Muscel presents himself as a Romanian-American businessman and candidates independently for the presidential elections. According to the declaration of wealth, it owns an apartment in Bucharest (80 sqm) and in Florida – USA (110 sqm), a house of 380 square meters in the city of McCormick from the American state of South Carolina and another 410 sqm house in Florida, to which are added four lands: 15 hectares Intravilan – Giurgiu county, 9 hectares of Argeș, a 9 -hectare. McCormick and 50 hectares of urban in Argeș.

It owns three cars (BMW, Porsche and Deer), a painting evaluated at $ 30,000 and a collection of statues and bronze objects valued at $ 25,000.

John-Ion Banu-Muscel has about $ 400,000 and 300,000 lei in bank accounts, but also financial assets in the US of $ 248,000.

In terms of revenues, Banu-Muscel had a salary of $ 75,000 as a manager at Ocean Test and $ 180,000 as a doctor.

In addition, he has an annual US pension of $ 21,000 and has received $ 48,000 from a farm in McCormick.

Silviu Predoiu

Former deputy director and interim director of the Foreign Intelligence Service until 2018, Silviu Predoiu is applying from the League of National Action Little. It owns two apartments in Bucharest (73 sqm and 77 sqm) and a holiday home with an area of ​​115 square meters, two urban lands (14 sqm and 1,162 sqm) and 5 hectares of agricultural land in Constanța county.

He also owns two cars (Mazda CX5 and Fiat 850), watches worth 7,000 euros and seven bank accounts with 100,000 lei, 35,000 euros and $ 20,000.

In terms of revenues, Silviu Predoiu mentioned a service pension of 260,000 lei (MApN’s pension house), and his wife a service pension of 100,800 lei (SRI pension house).
Daniel Funeriu

Former Minister of Education in the Government of Emil Boc, Daniel Funeriu is applying as an independent. It owns two apartments in Timișoara (124 sqm and 55 sqm) and a house in Germany (230 sqm) with a yard of 838 square meters, but also two agricultural lands in Timiș county – 30.5 hectares and 19.5 hectares.

Funeriu has five cars (Jaguar XJ6, Jaguar S, Mazda CX5, Audi A6 and Renault Twingo), a collection of jewelry valued at 15,000 euros, bank accounts, deposits and investment funds of approximately 360,000 euros and 1.3 million years.

In the last year he reported important revenues: 138,000 euros – consulting at Gopa Pace, 56,000 lei from the University of Bucharest, 20,000 lei – consultancy at Infomart, 8,700 euros – consultancy at Oriensys, plus 25,000 lei representing land lease, while his wife had a salary of only 7,000 euros from UMC.

Sebastian Constantin Popescu

He is applying for the second time in the presidential elections, from the new Romania. In the declaration of wealth he did not mention any income in the last year, instead he has a house of 78 sqm in the town of Făurești (Vâlcea county), an urban land of 2,426 sqm and another 13 agricultural lands in the same commune, having a cumulative area of ​​over 18,000 square meters, in the heading ‘Method of acquisition’ being mentioned ‘