The City Hall has to recover 779 million lei from unpaid parking fines. Why cannot identify the owners of cars
The City Hall of Bucharest (PMB) said that it cannot identify the owners of the cars, which led to the situation in which to recover 779 million lei from unpaid fines.
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The City Hall of Bucharest has divided this statistics into two levels: the fines applied by the employees of the Municipal Company Parking Bucharest SA and the fines automatically applied by the digital systems of the PMB.
According to the information received by Digi24 from the City Hall, from 2023 to the present, the employees of the Municipal Company Parking Bucharest (CMPB) have issued finding notes worth:
24,682 million lei for 2025;
30,730 million lei for 2024;
34,430 million lei for 2023;
These are the fines applied by the CMPB employees who go on the field, check the parking lots and leave these notes in the cars. However, the PMB's response does not appear, however, how much of this value was effectively collected.
The note of finding contains a picture from which the registration number of the car, the date and time at which the “was violated”Obligation to pay the fare for the parking place“And instructions for the payment of the fine. In addition, the institution also has digital cameras and systems that automatically emit such notes.
Only, according to the PMB, it cannot apply these fines to the owners of cars that do not pay the parking by invoking “Lack of access to identification data”.
“This situation generates a significant injury: the total non -recovered amount amounts to 779.199,200 lei, representing 3,895,996 notes of unquestioned finding, resulting from the checks carried out through the digital high precision monitoring systems ”, It is shown in the response of the City Hall.
These are the parking lots administered by the Capital City Hall, ie the parking with blue marking.
From the decision by which the parking managed by the City Hall was regulated, however, that the authorities have the right to block the parked cars irregularly (for example, using wheel locking systems) until the full payment of the fine. The penalty for non -payment of the tariff is 200 lei/car/24 hours.
Stelian Bujduveanu: “We have already submitted discussions with the mayors of the sector. We will all meet, to have a working group”
In August, the interim general mayor of the capital, Stelian Bujduveanu, announced that he has already initiated discussions with the mayors of the sector, for a unitary parking policy at Bucharest.
“Less matters who gives a fine or who receives the money, but for this service to be delivered qualitatively. We do not have parking spaces arranged on the streets where they are not allowed to be arranged.
I propose that in the next period we will real debate the parking strategy of the municipality of Bucharest. I have already submitted discussions with the mayors of the sector. We will all meet, to have a working group formed, with a representative from each sector ”he said.
Gianina Damian, chief accountant of Parking company, said that the notes of finding cannot be considered certain receivables, given that the owner of the car is not known.
“We headed to court where we knew the user of the car. We repeatedly headed in court, trying to obtain through the court the owners of the cars, so that these notes can send them directly to the Dencians. There are variants I tried. We have in court won processes regarding the notes of finding“She explained.
