Bucharest inspector sacked
Costel Grojdea, head of ITM București, was dismissed after photos showed him arriving at work in a roughly €300,000 Lamborghini despite reportedly earning about €1,300 per month. (x.com) The social post circulated widely today and prompted immediate calls for accountability in local feeds. (x.com)
Romania’s labor minister removed Costel Grojdea from the top job at Bucharest’s labor inspectorate on April 15, hours after images of him driving a Lamborghini Urus spread online. (g4media.ro) The ministry order ends Grojdea’s secondment from Iași to Bucharest effective April 16, and sends him back to his previous post as chief inspector at the Iași Territorial Labor Inspectorate. He had been moved to Bucharest on March 31 and started there on April 1. (digi24.ro) Romanian outlets reported the sport utility vehicle was a Lamborghini Urus worth about €300,000. HotNews said Grojdea’s latest public asset filing listed 82,120 lei in annual pay from Iași, while the Bucharest dismissal order says his Iași base salary is 14,722 lei gross per month. (hotnews.ro) (digi24.ro) The Territorial Labor Inspectorate enforces wage, contract, workplace safety, and overtime rules. Its Bucharest office oversees employers in the capital, so the head of that office sits in a job built around inspections, compliance, and public trust. (digi24.ro) The scrutiny centered on two questions raised in local coverage: the car did not appear in the public asset declaration tied to Grojdea, and several outlets said the vehicle was leased by an Iași company that had previously been inspected by the labor authority he led there. (hotnews.ro) (g4media.ro) Grojdea denied owning the vehicle. He said on Antena 3, as quoted by HotNews and G4Media, that the Lamborghini belonged to an acquaintance from Iași who asked him to take it to Bucharest for servicing. (hotnews.ro) (g4media.ro) His public asset declaration from Iași, available on the inspectorate’s site, lists land in Iași County, two 297-square-meter houses in Rediu, and two 65-square-meter apartments in Iași. The excerpt visible in the filing does not show a Lamborghini. (itmiasi.ro) The ministry’s move was narrow but immediate: it canceled the temporary Bucharest posting rather than announcing a broader investigation on Wednesday. By Thursday, Grojdea is due back in Iași, where the paperwork says he resumes his previous leadership role. (libertatea.ro) (hotnews.ro)
