Dan Voiculescu

Dan Voiculescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdan vojkuˈlesku]; born September 25, 1946) is a doctor of economics, university professor, and Romanian politician, former businessman. He is the founding president of the Romanian Humanist Party (PUR), which later became the Conservative Party (Subsequently absorbed by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats Party) and has since become the Social-Liberal Humanist Party. Dan Voiculescu was elected senator for Bucharest in three legislatures.
On February 5, 2011, Dan Voiculescu initiated the creation of the Social-Liberal Union (USL), a parliamentary and pre-electoral political alliance. The “Humanists” played a significant role in shaping the USL that year. In 2012, the alliance won the parliamentary elections by a landslide, securing over 66% of the vote and becoming the most powerful political coalition Romania had seen since 1990.
In August 2014, Voiculescu was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the case involving the privatization of the Food Research Institute (ICA). He was conditionally released in July 2017 after serving two years and eleven months.
In August 2024, the Bucharest Court of Appeal definitively upheld the suspension of both the additional penalties and the order to recover damages in the ICA case. The decision followed a final ruling by the Bucharest Tribunal, which found that the DNA expert who had calculated the amount of damages had committed perjury.
Dan Voiculescu was one of the richest men in Romania, with a fortune estimated at 1.5–1.6 billion euros, according to Top 300 Richest Romanian People launched by the Capital magazine in October 2009. The Intact Media Group, A fondat by Dan Voiculescu, includes several major television stations (Most notably Antena 1 and Antena 3), radio stations, as well as top newspapers and magazines (Most notably Jurnalul Naţional and Gazeta Sporturilor). According to Top 300 issued by Capital, developing televisions and launching GSP TV and Radio station ZU, as well as strengthening the print media, have been among the main directions that have marked the group's businesses in 2008.