Man, what do you know! "What am I supposed to hear, bro, it's full of state bosses, one and the same," I said. Well, I stumbled upon a story that cleared things up.

Dan Plăveți, the guy who on May 29, 2026, was appointed President and CEO of Hidroelectrica - yes, right now, in the middle of summer, when we're struggling to pay for electricity - was involved in a lawsuit. 4,435 lei, which he paid back in November 2017, even though his mandate there had ended earlier. 4,435 lei, bro!

Mioara makes that much in a month at Lidl, and if she also grabs a carton of discounted cigarettes, that's a fortune. But these guys, they file lawsuits over sums like this. 4,023 lei net, let's say. And what do you think? Transelectrica filed the action on October 14, 2022, at the Bucharest Tribunal, after the Court of Accounts told them to recover the money.

But the court dismissed the claim as time-barred! The 3-year statute of limitations started running from November 2017, when the payment was made, and expired in November 2020. So, they only moved in 2022, when it was already too late.

The decision was upheld on appeal on December 11, 2024, and on final appeal on April 30, 2026. So, guess who kept the money? Exactly, Mr. Plăveți.

Now, if you ask me, I'm not buying this story. I mean, you have a debt, but if they don't catch you in 3 years, you're clean? In Romania, yes.

In the state sector, even more so. But that's not all, bro. Dan Plăveți, 57 years old, the man who's everywhere: member of the Board of Directors of Romgaz, President of the Directorate of the Oltenia Energy Complex, member of the boards of Tulcea Gaz and Transgaz.

And that's not all. Previously, he also ran Bucharest Airports, Tarom, CFR Călători, ANRE, Transelectrica, and Hidroserv. I mean, the guy has a CV like it's a state organizational chart.

He receives 12,000 lei from the Oltenia Energy Complex, Tulcea Gaz, and an intercommunity development association for garbage in Bucharest. To me, it seems like if you sit on so many boards, you don't have time to manage them all. But hey, that's the system.

But what made me jump out of my seat is that he received compensation of over one million lei from Hidroserv, after he sued the company for terminating his management contract. One million lei, bro! Me with my 2008 BMW, financed by Relu, and he gets a million in compensation for being fired from a state company.

And then he returns to another state company as boss. What, is this some game of tag? That's not how it works, man.

Seriously, it's like it's straight out of Filantropica. Who pays? Us, the suckers, from the budget.

Alright, I'm off to tell Mioara not to buy cheap electricity on offer anymore, because it might end up in Plăveți's compensation.