Klaus Iohannis. Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
The National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) notified Klaus Iohannis that it has to pay 4.7 million lei, representing the amount collected from rents, plus penalties and interest, for the building in Sibiu that the former president is definitively lost. Hotnews sources confirmed the information, after it was broadcast by G4media and Digi24.
The former presidential couple owned a building on Nicolae Bălescu street number 29 in Sibiu between 1999-2016, collecting over 320,000 euros from the rent paid by Raiffeisen Bank for the ground floor of the house, according to riseproject.ro. With this money, he wrote the investigation publication in an article in 2015, Iohannis bought three other houses, thus obtaining other rental revenues.
In November 2015, the Brasov Court of Appeal established that the building was illegally owned by Iohannis spouses. Thus, in April 2016, the family ownership title was radiated from the land book.
ANAF has now sent them a legal payment order, which amounts to 4.7 million lei, also with penalties and interest.
In September 2024, the Iohannis family lost a second building in Sibiu, on Gheorghe Magheru street 35. This was one of the disputes that prevented the Romanian state from recovering the space in Nicolae Bălcescu street despite the court decision in November 2015.
The dispute on which the High Court was pronounced in September last year was opened by Rodica Baștea, a friend from Miami of the Iohannis family, who requested the cancellation of a 2008 certificate by which the Romanian state was declared the legal heir to the building in Gheorghe Magheru 35.
Between 1999 and 2008, the building on Gheorghe Magheru street 35 belonged to Ioan Baștea, the woman's husband, who died in the meantime, Georgeti Lăzurcă, the president's mother-in-law, and to Carmen Iohannis, his wife.
