Adriean Videanu

He has two brothers: Marian, born in 1958, international transports driver and Fănel, born in 1968, graduate from AES and PhD in economics.

Adriean Marian Videanu (born 1 June 1962) is a businessman and former mayor of Bucharest, Romania.

Adriean Videanu has been married since 1987 to Mioara Videanu, born on August 12, 1963, in the commune of Grosu, Teleorman and graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies (AES) in Bucharest, with whom he was a childhood friend.

In 1981, Adriean Videanu graduated from the High School of Mathematics - Physics no. 4 from Măgurele, near Bucharest.

In the same year, he was admitted to the Faculty of Transport within the Bucharest Polytechnic, Department of Road Vehicles (AR), which he graduated in 1987.

He performed a military service in a tank unit in Lipova (Arad County).

During the high school and college, he practiced volleyball for professionals (division B) and football for the Petrolul Videle team (division C) where he played 3 seasons.

The Videanu couple have lived in Bucharest since 1987.

In 1987, after graduating from college, Adriean Videanu obtained an assignment as an engineer within the I.T.A.U. (Light Car Transport Company), a logistics unit within the structure of the General Petroleum Special Construction Constructions Trust (T.A.G.C.S.P.) Ploiești, where he worked by 1990.

During these three years he travelled from Bucharest to the workplace.

At that time under the Ministry of Petrochemical Industry, the T.A.G.C.S.P. was the most important Romanian construction and logistics company with specialized activities in the field of energy, especially oil and gas.

Adriean Videanu became the head of the Transport department, then, the head of the local section of the Equipment and Transport Station (S.U.T.) within the T.A.G.C.S.P and was in this position at the time of the events of December 1989.

Adriean and Mioara Videanu have two children: Andrei Valentin, born in 1990 and Diana Alexandra, born in 1992.

In the spring of 1990, the National Salvation Front (NSF) has been prepared for parliamentary elections and looked for the young people with a university background and local notoriety.

Cazimir Ionescu, the vice-president of NSF and of the Provisional Council of National Union (PCNU), responsible for Teleorman county, has address the related request to Adriean Videanu, known and appreciated locally especially for his football activity.

At the age of 27, Adriean Videanu agreed to enter politics and was running for the first time as an MP on the NSF lists.

During 1991, there were divergences within NSF between the wing that supports the acceleration of economic reforms, grouped around Prime Minister Petre Roman, and the one that militates for the extension of the state sector's presence in the economy, whose unofficial leader was President Ion Iliescu.

Adriean Videanu was close to the first group and participated in March 1992 in the National Convention that enshrines the split between the two parties, following the fall of the Romanian government.

At the NSF Extraordinary National Convention of May 1993, the change of name of the NSF party to the Democratic Party (PD)was approved, Adriean Videanu was appointed the president of the youth organization and the party spokesman, positions he holds by 1996.

In 1996, he rose to the second echelon of the party, as secretary of the Executive Bureau, a body that became in 1997 NPB (National Political Bureau).

During the governing of the CDR alliance where the Democratic Party was a part, Adriean Videanu was responsible for the party's image problems and relations with the press.

At the National Convention of the DP of February 2000, the same leadership was maintained around Petre Roman, categorized as a "club of barons", strongly used in polls due to his participation in the government.

Adriean Videanu was reconfirmed as the executive secretary of NPB.

In July 2000, after Traian Băsescu's victory at the local elections in Bucharest, he became the coordinator of the DP Bucharest organization, which remained without a leader after the resignation of Nicolae Staiculescu.

At the Extraordinary National Convention of the DP in May 2001, Petre Roman was replaced by Traian Băsescu.

In the new NPB elected in June 2001, Adriean Videanu was elected as a vice president in the first round, responsible for the party's image.

From this moment, he became one of the most important leaders of the DP, representative of the new generation that came to power with Traian Băsescu.

A businessman in the marble and granite industry, Videanu was elected mayor in early April 2005, gathering 53.01% of the Bucharest electorate's vote, but the turnout was the lowest since 1989, with only 24.83% of the voters turning up.

In June 2005, after his name was circulated in the press for the DP leadership, the position finally belonged to Emil Boc, and Adriean Videanu became the executive president, a position he held by 2007, when the party merged with the Liberal Democratic Party led by Theodor Stolojan and the DP-L was created.

Many streets from Romanian capital were paved with new curbstones imported from China during the period of 2006–2008.

The traffic was severely disturbed, dissatisfying Bucharest inhabitants.

According to some preliminary data Videanu's companies obtained illegally 4 million euros from state funds.

He is also a vice president of the Democratic Liberal Party of Romania, which was led by Emil Boc and the Minister of Economy in the Boc Cabinet, since 22 December 2008.

Starting with 2008 Videanu is under corruption investigation regarding a business with raw materials for constructions (i.e. curbstones).

His own companies were involved in the scandalous affair of the "curbstonization" of the Romanian capital city, Bucharest.

Andrei Videanu was admitted in 2009 to George Washington University (GWU) in the US, where he studies economics.

Diana Videanu was accepted in 2012 at the University College of London (UCL) in the United Kingdom, Department of Science & Innovation.

On 29 January 2015 he was arrested for new corruption allegations.

He and his wife Mioriţa have two children, Andrei-Valentin and Diana-Alexandra.

Adriean Videanu comes from a family of wealthy farmers from the area of Videle, Teleorman.