CT Popescu, harsh criticism of Ionuț Moșteanu: “He lies live, without blinking, this after he is also stupid”
Journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu wrote, in a post on Facebook, that the Minister of Defense Ionuț Moșteanu justifies the inconsistencies in his CV by the fact that he graduated from a higher education institution that Popescu says is “a fad of college”.
“What I see in Moșteanu's CV, 3 years of Automatica, a 5-year college, which the undersigned graduated in 1981, makes me cringe. I'm curious: what the hell did this party profiteer (who supported E. Lasconi for months, then switched to Nicușor Dan in 24 hours) at Automatica in Bucharest, one of the most powerful and serious institutions of education in Romania?”, wrote CT Popescu.
He claims that Ionuț Moșteanu's recent statements related to his studies show stupidity, in addition to being a lie.
“It seems phenomenal to me the way this man lies live, without blinking, that's because he's also stupid. How could it be otherwise, if we think about how he tried to justify the grotesque failure of the operation to mobilize the reservists or the refusal to communicate to the public opinion the amount with which Romania has helped Ukraine so far?”, writes the journalist.
“I don't know how many times I've heard him say on TV that he graduated from a fake private college, Bioterra, involved in scandals with fake diplomas. He claims that he is not ashamed of it, of bioterra. And now there is no Bioterra in his CV, but one Athenaeum Management, which was established 20 years later after its alleged attendance by Moșteanu. He is like a citizen, whom he calls Prostu Ion, would make a request to the Population Register to have his name changed to Prostu Vasile,” continued CT Popescu.
In the end, he labeled as “pathetic” the way in which Ionuț Moșteanu's USR colleagues try to explain “this ordinary lie”.
The ambiguities in Moșteanu's CV
In the first public positions he held, adviser to the Ministry of Transport and member of several CAs, the Athenaeum faculty appears in Ionuț Moșteanu's CV, while now Bioterra appears, writes Libertatea. Atheneum denied having the current Minister of Defense as a student.
Moșteanu held, in 2015-2016, the position of advisor to the minister in the Ministry of Transport and member of the CA of some state companies, positions that required, according to the law at the time, higher education.
The minister then stated in his CV that he studied Management, between 1996 and 2000, at the Athenaeum private university in Bucharest. As can be seen from this CV, the diploma from the Athenaeum was the only university diploma that Moşteanu held during that period.
In a response to Libertatea, the Athenaeum University denied that Moșteanu was a student and that the Management specialization was not active in those years, being authorized only in 2020. The CV in which the Athenaeum University was mentioned was deleted from the Tarom website, in the part that contained the presentation of Moșteanu, as a member of the Board of Directors.
After becoming a parliamentarian, in later versions of his CV, Moșteanu stated that he studied at another private university: Bioterra University, between 1996-1999, which he completed in 2015.
Minister's explanations: “A mistake that embarrasses me”
After the information published by Libertatea regarding the fact that the Athenaeum faculty appears in an older CV, where according to the school he was never a student, Minister Moșteanu, a member of USR, admitted on his Facebook page that the mention of the Athenaeum in his first public CV was “a mistake”. And he published the bachelor's degree obtained at Bioterra, at the Faculty of Engineering and Agrotourism Management.
“To clarify the discussions that have appeared in the public space about my studies, I put my bachelor's degree here to clarify things,” wrote Ionuț Moșteanu.
Next, the minister presents the “story of his studies”:
“I came in 45th in Automatic in 1992. In the 2nd year I started working to support myself, I never finished. I started a new college, but it was not a priority for me to graduate, I never needed the diploma in private jobs and entrepreneurship. I continued to learn every day and still do.
I completed the faculty in 2015 with the license exam and obtained the diploma at Bioterra, Faculty of Engineering and Agrotourism Management, Profile – economic engineering, Specialty – managerial engineering”, wrote Ionuț Moșteanu.
“In a CV made in 2016 at speed on a model on the net, there was a mistake that I admit embarrasses me. I didn't pay much attention to these details then. I apologize for that,” the minister also said.
