Romanian billionaire Ion Tiriac organises his winter board hunt before Christmas

Romanian businessman Ion Tiriac, one of the country’s richest people, will have his famous wild boar hunt earlier this winter. Tiriac and his guests will meet next weekend (December 19) in the Romanian village of Balc, close to the Hungarian border, for this event, which has become sort of a tradition, according to sources quoted by local Vocea Transilvaniei. Tiriac organised his first wild boar hunt in 2005, on the hunting domain he owns in Balc, and this has taken place each year since then, in January. Some of the most powerful businessmen in Europe are invited each year to take part in this event. George Marsan, the mayor of Monte Carlo, Erich Hampel, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of UniCredit Bank Austria, George Marsan, primarul oraşului Monte Carlo, Erich Hampel, manager Unicredit Bank Austria, Wolfgang Porsche, the heir of Porsche group, and Franz Rauch, owner of the largest natural drinks producer in Europe, are among Tiriac’s usual guests. Klaus Mangold, former member in Daimler’s board, as well as European politicians are also on the guest lists for these events. Most guests are expected to come to Debrecen, in Hungary, instead of Oradea airport, which is closer to Balc, after an incident in 2009, when a private plane which was carrying Tiriac’s son and other nine guests missed the landing and went off track. No one was injured in the incident. Each year, members of an ecologist association called Vier Pfoten have organised original protests near the entry on Tiriac’s hunting domain in Balc. editor@romania-insider.com