Who are the two heads of the ANPC investigated by DNA for abuse in service and blackmail in the case of the secretary of state detained
The National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC) is again in view of the prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), two months after the former head of the institution, Cristian Popescu Piedone, was under judicial control and was dismissed. The DNA announced on Friday that the current ANPC president, Sebastian Ioan Hotca, and the director of the institution, Anghel Silviu Paul, were in turn put under judicial control, in a file in which it was REMEMBER a secretary of state from the Ministry of Economy.
Flavius Nedelcea, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Economy, was detained by the DNA for 24 hours “for committing the crime of inciting abuse in the service if the official obtained for himself or another an undue use, in continuous form”. In the same file, the head and general manager of ANPC were placed under judicial control for abuse in service and blackmail.
The spokesman for the government, Ioana Dogioiu, transmitted, for Hotnews, that Sebastian Ioan Hotca “will no longer exercise the president of ANPC” and Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan will appoint a replacement at the latest on Monday. The announcement came after DNA announced that Hotca and the director of the institution, Anghel Silviu Paul, were placed under judicial control.
Sebastian Ioan Hotca is, over two months, the second head of ANPC who leaves the position because it is investigated by DNA. In July this year Cristian Popescu Piedone was dismissed from the management of ANPC for the same reason.
Sebastian Ioan Hotca is by profession lawyer
Hotca became Vice President of ANPC in April 2022. Previously, he was a lawyer, except for 2015, when he was a Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Began to practice as a lawyer since 1999.
At the level of the studies, Sebastian Ioan Hotca is licensed in legal sciences, the right specialization, at the UBB in Cluj Napoca.
What wealth is the former ANPC chief, now researched by DNA
Sebastian Ioan Hotca has 40,000 lei, respectively 40,000 euros, according to the latest declaration of wealth, submitted in 2024. The former ANPC chief also granted loans to two natural persons, one worth 20,000 euros, and another of 335,800 lei.
In 2023, Hotca had an income from ANPC of 102,216 lei, ie about 8,500 lei a month. In addition to this income, he also received 85,572.50 lei, that is about 7,100 lei a month, from “interest securities”.
He also owns an urban land, in Satu Mare, which he in 2023, of 246 square meters, of which he has half. He also has an apartment in Satu Mare, also bought in 2023, 75 square meters. Hotca also has a Porsche Cayenne car, since 2013.
General Manager Anghel Silviu Paul: Foreign policy studies, “protocol and label”
Anghel-Silviu Paul was first employed in ANPC in March 2009 and had the position of counselor of the president of the institution. Then, from November 2009, he became an ANPC commissioner, a position he held until September 2013, according to the CV.
Then, for a short time, from September 2013 to March 2014 he worked as a counselor at the General Directorate for the Administration of Realtary Heritage Sector 2. From here, he returns to the ANPC as director of the Cabinet of the ANPC president where he stays until November 2014, when he becomes general director of the institution.
Anghel-Silviu Paul holds the position of general director of the ANPC for almost 11 years.
Before engaging at the ANPC in 2009, he worked as an economist, managed several companies and was a legal adviser in a notarial office.
Anghel-Silviu Paul is licensed as an economist and studied law at Titu Maiorescu University. He has postgraduate studies at the National Academy of Information “Mihai Viteazul”. He also studied at the Romanian Diplomatic Institute, where he graduated two programs, “foreign policy and diplomacy” and “protocol and label in diplomacy”.
Paintings and jewelry of 20,000 euros
According to the declaration of wealth completed in June 2024, the general director of ANPC has three lands, one in Teleorman and two in Tulcea. In addition to them, Anghel-Silviu Paul has four apartments in Bucharest and three commercial or production spaces. He owns a Land Rover manufactured in 2008 and a 2021 Vespa.
The declaration of wealth shows that the general director of ANPC is now being investigated by DNA has paintings and jewelry worth 20,000 euros, acquired between 2000 and 2007.
When it comes to revenues, the general manager of the ANPC received in 2023 a salary of 132,028 lei, ie about 11,000 lei per month. He also received money for a project of the European Commission, 7,060 lei, and from the rents obtained 181,400 lei in 2023.
Anghel-Silviu Paul mentioned in the declaration of wealth and the disability allowance of 4,740 lei annually.
