Dozens of magistrates, some pensioners, pay rent between 60 and 197 lei in homes in the center of the capital provided by the Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice. Photo: Inquam Photos / George Călin
81 people – former or current magistrates, lawyers or notaries – are in service homes of the Ministry of Justice. Among them, former heads of the supreme court. The tenants pay between 60 and 197 lei. 36 of them are “special” pensioners, writes Free Europe.
Some have left the system for more than ten years, received the homes with modest rents and kept them under the same preferential conditions. This although they already had properties in Ilfov County, according to wealth statements, according to Free Europe.
While collecting the equivalent of two packs of cigarettes for the rent of a studio, the Ministry of Justice pays – out of public money – between 400 and 600 euros to employees who rent their housing on the free market. As an owner, the Ministry of Justice earns between 60 and 200 lei per month for each of the homes it has rented to the former or current employees.
Currently, the institution says it has 81 tenants, 36 of which are pensioners.
The amounts collected as the “rents of the service house” represent the source of their own revenues from which, on the one hand, the purchase of new homes, on the other hand, their maintenance.
According to the quoted source, 15 persons pay 197 lei – the maximum amount; 13 – 194 lei, and 12 minimum amount – 60 lei.
According to a report from 2012, the Ministry of Justice had 89 service homes. 20 were the direct property of the institution, while 69 were of the state, built from budgetary revenues with association with the City Hall of Bucharest. According to GD 310/2007, for the living area 0.84 lei/sqm are paid, for the bathroom, kitchen, aisle – 0.34 lei/sqm, for terraces or balconies – 0.19 lei/sqm. The garages are a little more expensive – 1.27 lei/sqm. The same price is paid for swimming pools.
The document signed by the then prime minister Călin Popescu Tariceanu also provided that the value of the rent must be updated annually, by Government Decision, until January 31. However, no government has updated prices, writes Free Europe.
