Veronica Gușă de Drăgan (born 12 July 1973) is a Romanian entrepreneur and the widow of

Iosif Constantin Drăgan Iosif Constantin Drăgan (; June 20, 1917 – August 21, 2008) was a Romanians, Romanian and Italy, Italian businessman, writer, historian and founder of the ButanGas company. In 2005, he was the second-wealthiest Romanian, according to the Romania ...

Early and personal life

Drăgan was born Daniela Veronica Gușă as the daughter of

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General involved in the 1989

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who died of cancer in 1994."Ștefan Gușă" Foundation
Biography of the general on the "Ştefan Guşă" Foundation site
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"Fiul rătăcitor în căutarea lui Iosif Constantin Drăgan" ("The Prodigal Son in Search for Iosif Constantin Drăgan")
9 June 2005 She was married to Iosif Constantin Drăgan and they had three sons together. At the time of their wedding in 1995, the groom was 78 and the bride, a recent university graduate, was 22.''

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"Povestea româncei cu cea mai uşoară viață din lume" ("The Story of the Romanian Woman with the Easiest Life on Earth")
18 October 2015

Wealth

After the death of her husband, Drăgan became the richest Romanian.
13 December 2010, www.wall-stret.ro, accessed 30 March 2011 According to

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Romania ranking from 2010, she had an estimated fortune of about 900 million

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Inheritance

Drăgan owns Grupul Drăgan, which includes ButanGas, the Drăgan Foundation, the General Ștefan Gușă Foundation, the Nagard publishing house, the local dailies Renașterea Bănățeană and Redeșteptarea, Ten TV, Drăgan European University of Lugoj, Veroniki Life medical clinic, and Veroniki Art gallery.

Reorganization of the holding company

One year after her husband's death, Drăgan decided to move the entire family business to a new structure, called Veroniki Holding SpA. Thus, in addition to ButanGas (industrial group with activities in Italy, Albania, Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, and Romania and a turnover of ButanGas Romania estimated at about 70 million euros), the group is now part of Romconstruct Top, a company acquired for the development of a wind farm in Siliștea,

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