Marian Neacșu, accused of allegedly plagiarizing the abstract of his doctoral thesis and his CV - Libertatea

Marian Neacșu, the current Minister of Internal Affairs and deputy prime minister, is accused by Libertatea of plagiarizing parts of his CV and the entire English-language abstract of his doctoral thesis. The documents were published in the file of the thesis defended in 2017 at Valahia University of Târgoviște.

According to the publication’s investigation, the English-language abstract attributed to Neacșu actually belongs to another doctoral student, Ileana Porojan, who researched development strategies for agricultural SMEs in Dâmbovița County. The document even includes her name and thesis title, as well as wording, headings, and spelling mistakes taken from her CV.

Libertatea claims that further information from Neacșu’s Romanian-language CV was copied or adapted, including details about skills and education. The document also mentions a master’s degree at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, for which the institution indicated a different period from the one stated in the CV.

His doctoral supervisor, Professor Ion Pârgaru, attributed the situation to a possible mistake by the secretariat and said that the documents had been checked before the defense. By the time the article was published, neither Valahia University nor the Ministry of Education had provided the actual English-language abstract. The revelations come amid controversy over Neacșu’s suspended criminal sentence received in 2016, followed by rehabilitation.