Tanczos Barna, the Minister of Finance, believes that the recovery by the Romanian state from the Iohannis family of the amounts collected from the rents for the building in Sibiu, on which the justice decided that they did not have a right, will be a complicated and lasting procedure.
Carmen and Klaus Iohannis Photo: Archive
Minister Tanczos Barna was asked on Tuesday evening at Euronews Romania, if ANAF initiated the recovery procedure from the family of President Klaus Iohannis of these amounts.
“The procedure is extremely complicated because the situation of the property is quite complicated. There is, indeed, this definitive, irrevocable sentence by which certain documents have been canceled, which is why the retrocession on that part of the property is canceled. But there exists, from the first information I had time to go through, on the run, about two weeks ago, there is first and a co-ownership and that problem must be debated there, so it is not a hundred percent lost property. by the Iohannis family and we must see how we solve the problem from the point of view of the state at ANCPI, to the cadastre. After that, these registrations of the property rights of the Romanian state must be completed on that lost percentage, after which, surely, the dispute will begin. Things are now completed from the point of view of justice, other disputes are likely to begin“He explained.
Tanczos Barna stressed that exactly the amount will have to be established, as the procedure will be established by which it will be recovered by the state. The minister believes that it will most likely reach court so that this aspect is cut.
“What I can assure you is that during my mandate I will do my best to be represented and defended correctly, honest, legal, with maximum firmness. The deadlines cannot give them, because they will probably be the terms given by the courts, because it will not be an amicable agreement, probably, and then we will reach the courts again, but the Romanian state will do everything possible, through the Ministry of Finance, to Recover what has to recover and clarify the situation of that building“, Added the minister, according to News.ro.
How did the Iohannis family be in possession of the building
The High Court of Cassation and Justice gave the final decision, in September 2024, in a file in which Rodica Baștea, a family friend of Klaus Iohannis, demanded the cancellation of the acts by which the Romanian state was declared a heir to Sibiu, who He had become the property of the Iohannis family.
“It rejects as unfounded the appeal declared by the appellant-applicant Baştea Rodica against Decision no. 1973 of June 15, 2023 of the Alba Iulia Court of Appeal-Civil Section I, in contradiction with the Romanian respondents through the municipality of Sibiu represented by the mayor and the Romanian state through the Ministry of Finance”, It was shown in the minute of the final decision pronounced in September 2024 by the High Court of Cassation and Justice, regarding the building on Gheorghe Magheru 35 in Sibiu.
Rodica Băştea, a friend from Miami of the spouses Iohannis, requested the cancellation of a certificate from 2008 by which the Romanian state was declared the legal heir to the building in Gheorghe Magheru 35. Between 1999 and 2008, the house belonged to Ioan Baştea, the woman’s husband, deceased Meanwhile, Georgeti Lăzurcă, the mother -in -law of the president, and Carmen Iohannis.
According to ANAF, this inheritance litigation blocks the state recovery of another building lost in court by the Iohannis family, in November 2015. This is the commercial space in Sibiu, Nicolae Bălcescu street 29.
According to the historian of the inheritance reconstituted by RiseProject.ro and the Media Investigation Center (CIM), both buildings belonged to Eliseu and Maria Ghenea (former Baştea). The buildings were nationalized in the 1960s by the communist regime.
After the Revolution, in the 1990s, a presumptive heir, Ioan Băstea, an ancestor of Maria Ghenea (former Baştea) appeared. In 1999, he obtained a court decision that revokes the nationalization ordered by the communist state in the 1960s.
“On June 1, 1999, the Iohannis spouses go to the notary Radu Gabriel Bucşă. Klaus Iohannis, then inspector at the Sibiu School Inspectorate, had in his pocket a power of representation of Ioan Baştea”, Riseproject.ro journalists noted in a 2015 press investigation.
Through the succession perfected by the notary, Ioan Băstea becomes the owner of the building in Nicolae Bălcescu 29, and the same Ioan Băştea, this time with Georgeta Lăzurcă and her daughter, Carmen Iohannis, become owners of the building in Gheorghe Magheru 35.
The same day, Ioan Băştea sells, with only $ 3,200, half of the building in Nicolae Bălcescu to the spouses Klaus and Carmen Iohannis.
“This is how the Iohannis family reaches half the commercial space, which, in the next 17 years, brought him almost 1.3 million lei, around 260,000 euros, at the current course,” wrote journalists from RiseProject.ro.
