Viorel Hrebenciuc

Viorel Hrebenciuc (Romanian pronunciation: [vi.oˈrel hrebenˈt͡ʃjuk]; born August 7, 1953) is a Romanian statistician and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bacău County from 1996 to 2014.

He was born in Siminicea, Suceava County, and from 1973 to 1977, attended the Economic Cybernetics and Statistics Faculty of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. From 1977 to 1980, he directed organisational planning at a Bacău firm. From 1980 to 1982, he was specialty inspector at the Bacău County Statistical Directorate, holding the same position at the Bacău County Council from 1982 to 1989. In 1979, the Bacău city-level Romanian Communist Party organisation recruited him as an economic affairs activist. Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to the county level, and remained in the role until 1989. Entering democratic politics following the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he served as Mayor of Bacău in 1990 and as Prefect of Bacău County from 1990 to 1992. From that year until 1996, he was secretary general of the Romanian government. Entering the Chamber in 1996, he has sat on the following committees: human rights, religious affairs and national minorities (1996–2000); European integration (2002–2006; president from 2003); and European affairs (2004-; president), also heading a joint committee for drafting new election laws (2003–2004). He was vice president of the Chamber from 2000 to 2004, and led the PSD group there from 2000 to 2010, except in 2004-2005, when he was deputy leader. He again became vice president in 2012, continuing after the December election. In autumn 2014, the National Anticorruption Directorate charged Hrebenciuc in two cases: one involved corruption targeting forested land, while another alleged influence peddling with party colleague Dan Șova. The charges prompted him to resign from the Chamber and thus lose his parliamentary immunity.

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