Presidential adviser Ala Nemerenco said the pension in Romania that wasn’t indicated in her property statement belongs to her son who has developed a business thanks to a European project. She noted she sued the Socialist MPs who made clamorous statements about her from the Parliament’s rostrum, IPN reports.

Ala Nemerenco noted that a real denigration campaign was launched against her and the journalistic investigations according to which she hid a villa in Romania are misleading.

“It is a firm that runs a small four-room pension. This is a small business of my son who left the country in 1999. This pension was set up in 2011-2012. It is an individual enterprise as foreign funds were offered namely for small enterprises,” Ala Nemerenco stated in the talk show “Black Box” on Tv8 channel.

Moreover, she said she sued the Socialist MPs who disseminated false information about her so as to cast doubt on her integrity.  She sued particular persons who made calumnies against her not websites.

As to the scandal about her master’s diplomat that her opponents say was obtained without studies, Ala Nemerenco said such diplomas were offered to all those who laid the foundations of the School of Public Health Management and it is not within the MPs’ competence to demand to annul such documents. 

“This diploma was offered not only to me. It was offered by an institution, a state authority, to seven persons. No one invited us to ask if we want it. It was a gesture of gratitude from the system for the volunteer work we did. People from the academia should pronounce on this, not MPs.”

Ala Nemerenco serves as an adviser to President Maia Sandu on health and was nominated for minister of health, labor and social protection in the Government of candidate for Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița.