Plane crashed in Milan: on board a Romanian billionaire headed to Olbia with his wife, son and friends

Dan Petrescu was a real estate developer considered one of the richest men in Romania. In Gallura he had a villa

MILAN. Dan Petrescu was considered one of the richest men in Romania, owner and pilot of the plane bound for Olbia that crashed into a building in San Donato Milanese. He was 68, dual citizenship of Germany and Romania, and was a major investor in the real estate sector in his country. Among the victims, his 30-year-old son, Dan Stefan Petrescu, initially indicated as driving the plane, born in Munich and also with dual citizenship, and his wife, 65, born in Romania with French citizenship. With them 5 other people still to be identified, including the child probably a few years old ..

Petrescu owns a large number of buildings that he has sold over the years to large commercial chains, such as the Metro and Real hypermarkets. Partner of Ion Tiriac, his assets are estimated at around 3 billion euros which makes him one of the richest men in Romania, a country to which he returned after 1989 after spending many years in Germany to escape from the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. According to reports from the Romanian press, Petrescu was traveling with his family to Olbia, where he owns a villa and where his 98-year-old mother was waiting for him. The plane was bought in 2015 by Petrescu together with Vova Cohn, a former shareholder of the Dinamo Bucharest football team. (Handle).