Romanian MP and former minister Elena Udrea (in picture), who recently divorced businessman Dorin Cocos, got six land plots, three buildings and two cars after the separation. The politician, who recently run for the helm of the Democrat Liberal Party PDL but lost, now owns two landplots of around 5,000 sqm each in Bucharest, and half of a 600 sqm plot also in Bucharest. She also owns a 240 sqm land and the 170 sqm building on Pipera Tunari street, which was paid off in installments until 2010. A 60-sqm apartment, and another 169 sqm house are also part of Udrea's wealth, as mentioned in her official wealth statement.

A 2005 Mercedes and a 500 Fiat from 2010 are also in her ownership, and so are EUR 50,000 worth of gold and silver jewelry. Udrea's bank accounts hold EUR 440,000 and RON 19,000 at Banca Transilvania, and EUR 60,000 and RON 1.2 million at BRD; all in all, some EUR 780,000 in bank accounts.

Elena Udrea is one of Romania’s highest profile politicians and has attracted plenty of local and international media attention throughout her career. She boldly posed for a fashion magazine, in an issue dedicated to powerful women, after she had caught the media’s eye with the expensive Dolce & Gabbana dress she wore during a TV show and a press conference. Her expensive taste in fashion has been both criticized and lauded, and she has stated that politics can be “done in high heels,” as well as by the blonde and the young.

Udrea also made international headlines for having sent high heeled shoes to some flooded areas, as help for those in distress. Before becoming a minister, she was lampooned for not knowing that Norway is a monarchy and not part of the European Union.

The more gossip orientated parts of the media have also speculated on an alleged love affair between president Basescu and Elena Udrea.

Before becoming a minister, Udrea, a law graduate, was a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, having got involved in politics in 2002. In 2005, she became a state counselor and the head of president Traian Basescu’s chancellery. She had worked with Basescu before, during his mandate as Bucharest mayor, when Udrea was a counselor, president of the Judicial and Discipline Commission at Bucharest City Hall.

Udrea has previously held a ministerial seat was Tourism Minister and Environment Minister interim for a time.

Her now ex-husband Dorin Cocoş is a businessman involved mainly in real estate, as well as owns a chain of parking lots in Bucharest. His son Alin Cocoş is developing the site for the new H&M store in Bucharest's Old Town and will own the building when complete.

editor@romania-insider.com

(photo source: Elena Udrea's Facebook page)