Former Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu does not seem to be in the best financial or physical shape if we are to judge from the pictures. Paparazzo EVZ caught him and Dan Vilceanu chatting over coffee. Florin Citu was hiding his face under a cap.
Not for nothing, but on his face, you can see his concern and the fact that he has lost weight. As he looks into his cell phone, he tells Dan Vilceanu something that displeases him by the way he shakes his head.
The former PM parades with an empty wallet
The former PM’s conversation partner doesn’t seem any calmer either. However, he is dressed in a shirt and pants, while Florin Citu has shorts and a t-shirt. It’s as if even the clothes say he doesn’t want to be recognized. But the icing on the cake is when a beggar walks towards the two men, specifically Florin Citu.
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And the former PM’s coffee partner makes an astonishing gesture. He takes out his wallet and shows the man how empty it is. Florin Citu is impassively stunned. He shrugs that he doesn’t have any money either. Astonishment. Who paid for the coffee? Even the beggar leaves disappointed after his interaction with the former premier. One explanation for the strange attitude is that Florin Citu also has criminal problems. He is under investigation in the DNA case related to the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines.
Vaccines criminal case
“I can tell you that I exercised my duties as Prime Minister in compliance with the legislation in force. (…) These are the statements I can make today. (…) If you look at the budget execution for 2021, you will see that the execution is better than was estimated at the beginning of the year,” Citu said at the time of the DNA hearing.
Romania had bought vaccines worth more than €1 billion at the time. Authorities also investigated Vlad Voiculescu and Ioana Mihaila in the case.