Dan-Coman Șova (born 9 April 1973 in

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) is a

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n lawyer and politician. A member of the

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(PSD), he has sat in the

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from 2008 to 2015, representing

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. Dan Șova served as Minister for Infrastructure Projects of National Interest and Foreign Investment (21 December 2012 to 5 March 2014) and Minister of Transportation (5 March to 24 June 2014). Previously, he served as Minister Delegate for Liaison with Parliament He graduated from the Faculty of Law (1995) and the Faculty of History (2001) of the

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. On 17 September 2015, Șova was sent to court together with the former

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, for acts of corruption related to the energy complexes at

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and

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, causing damages of over 3 million lei to the Romanian state; he was cleared of those charges in May 2018. On 26 January 2016, Șova was sued by the

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for influence peddling in a case related to the Govora Power Station. On 20 June 2018, he was sentenced by the

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to 3 years imprisonment and

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100,000 forfeiture for influence peddling in this case. After serving 6 months in prison, his sentence was suspended on appeal, but the case was reopened in 2019. On 1 March 2023, Șova was definitively sentenced by the High Court to 3 years of suspended prison in the Govora case.

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