Vasile-Silviu Prigoană (born December 22, 1963) is a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

n businessman and politician. He owns 60% of Rosal, a

waste collection Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management. It is the transfer of solid waste from the point of use and disposal to the point of treatment or landfill. Waste collection also includes the curbside collection of recyclable m ...

company which services Bucharest's Sector 3,

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Suceava Suceava () is the largest urban settlement and the seat town ( ro, oraș reședință de județ) of Suceava County, situated in the historical region of Bukovina, northeastern Romania, and at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central and Eastern E ...

, and

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. In December 2008, he became a member of the

Romanian Chamber of Deputies ); – Committee for Industries and Services ( ro, Comisia pentru industrii și servicii); – Committee for Transport and Infrastructure ( ro, Comisia pentru transporturi și infrastructură); – Committee for Agriculture, Forestry, Food Indu ...

, serving for four years. He was a member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) until September 2012, shortly before his term expired. Apart from his waste collection company, Prigoană is known for founding the first Romanian news television,

Realitatea TV Realitatea TV (, meaning "The Reality TV") is the former name of the Romanian news television channel Realitatea Plus. The channel began broadcasting in 2001 as a general-profile television and became the first Romanian news television in 2002. It ...

, the first sports channel based in

, TV Sport (later sold to

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, becoming Sport.ro), and two other music channels: the first with emphasis on Romanian traditional music, Etno TV, and the other known for promoting

Manele Manele (from Romanian, ''fem.'' ''sg.'' manea; ''pl.'' manele, the plural form being more common) is a genre of pop folk music from Romania. The manele can be divided into "classical manele" and "modern manele". The "classical manele" are a Tu ...

music,

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. His first wife, Viorica, died in 1994 at age 30. He is married to Adriana Bahmuțeanu with whom he had a tumultuous relationship that culminated with their fourth marriage in May 2009. The couple have two children together, along with two sons from his first marriage, Honorius-Adrian and Silvius.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Prigoana, Silviu 1963 births Living people People from Gherla Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Democratic Liberal Party (Romania) politicians