The head of ANAF says that the building confiscated from the Iohannis family “is in a state of degradation”. “We have no indications that the two spouses want to pay the amounts due”
Klaus Iohannis. Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
The president of the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF), Adrian Nica, told B1 TV that the institution “will proceed to initiate the action against the two spouses” Iohannis to recover the damage caused by the illegal occupation by the former presidential couple of the building on Nicolae Bălcescu 29.
On Friday, the Iohannis family was forced for the ½ share they owned from the building, lost in court.
“Our colleagues in ANAF notified the two spouses to teach the building. They responded, through a lawyer, that they do not hold the key to the building and believe that it is not necessary to present themselves to this teaching. In this situation, our colleagues forced one of the entries and entered the building. The building is in a state of degradation and that in one of the doors is the key to the building ”, said Adrian Nica.
He said that between ANAF and the former presidential couple “there were correspondences on two levels”.
“Once in terms of teaching the building, where they mentioned, through a lawyer, that they do not own the key and, therefore, cannot be presented at the delivery of the building (…). On the other level, they have requested explanations regarding the calculation of the amounts due. ANAF offered these explanations. The action in court against the two spouses will request, in addition to the payment of the amount, and insurance measures on the goods in order to recover the damage ”, added Adrian Nica.
Former president, somat by ANAF for a debt of almost a million euros
In August, ANAF notified Klaus Iohannis that it has to pay 4.7 million lei, representing the amount collected from the rents, plus penalties and interest, for the building in Sibiu, which the former president is permanently lost.
The former presidential couple owned a building on Nicolae Bălcescu 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 sent them this year 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.
