to a new term in the Chamber at that point, he initially sat on the foreign affairs committee, until February 2013, when he switched to the European affairs committee. He became one of the Chamber's vice presidents in December 2012. In November 2012, investigators from the National Integrity Agency (ANI) charged that for several months, from the time he took ministerial office until he left Sintezis that September, he was, legally, in a conflict of interest. Hellvig denied the charges, which were upheld the following April by the Bucharest Court of Appeal, prompting him to state he would continue to fight for vindication. In December 2014, the High Court of Cassation and Justice decided in Hellvig's favor, ruling that he had not been in a conflict of interest and rejecting the ANI's claims. In September 2013, when two vacancies opened in the PNL's delegation to the European Parliament, Hellvig filled one of the openings after resigning from the Chamber. As MEP, he sits on the Internal Market Committee. He won a full term as MEP at the May 2014 European Parliament election. In February 2015, President Klaus Iohannis nominated him to be director of the Romanian Intelligence Service; the following month, a joint session of Parliament confirmed him to the post on a 498–15 vote. A vice president of the PNL at the time, he subsequently resigned from the party, as required, and also from the European Parliament. In 2019 he was awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, Officer rank. He and his wife Andreea (née Dumitraș) have a daughter. Notes External links Official site Chamber of Deputies profile European Parliament profile Living people 1974 births People from Zalău Babeș-Bolyai University alumni National University of Political Studies and Public Administration alumni Romanian political scientists Romanian journalists National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians Conservative Party (Romania) politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Romanian Ministers of Regional Development MEPs for Romania 2007 MEPs for Romania 2009–2014 MEPs for Romania 2014–2019 Directors of the Romanian Intelligence Service Officers of the Order of the Star of Romania