The authorities in Brașov are carrying out checks after suspicions arose regarding the legality of the extension of the house that European Commissioner Roxana Mînzatu owns, together with her husband, in the city center. The Ministry of Culture says that there would be no approval for this extension.
Roxana Mînzatu bought the house for 17,000 euros in 2009 PHOTO Radu Bădoiu
In an investigation published on Tuesday, November 5 by the investigative website Snoop, it is stated that Roxana Mînzatu bought in 2009 for 17,000 euros a nationalized historical monument house, of 56 square meters, located in the center of Brașov, which was later extended to 131 square meters, without building permit. The house was purchased from RIAL Brașov. The expansion works were carried out between 2009 and 2012.
“All the documents in this sense can be obtained from the responsible institutions, the Ministry of Culture, in the present case. It is a former animal farm. There is a historical monument at the number I live at, but we didn’t live there. We stayed in a house of 60 square meters. My husband obtained all the documents necessary for tabulation, I cannot tell you that it is a building permit format, but he obtained the documents necessary for tabulation”said Roxana Mînzatu regarding the authorization related to the extension of the house in the center of Brașov.
The Ministry of Culture says there is no approval for this extension work.
According to the Mînzatu family, no act from the Brașov County Culture Directorate would have been necessary, because it managed to downgrade the building from the category of historical monuments.
After the publication of the investigation on the Snoop.ro website, a control team of the Brașov County Culture Department carried out an on-site inspection and drew up a finding note regarding the building located in Brașov Municipality.
In the following period, based on the finding note drawn up by the Brașov County Culture Directorate, a notification will be sent to the County Police Inspectorate regarding the expansion works of the Mînzatu family house.
“We have not yet received any documents from the Brașov County Culture Directorate. In the next period, we will carry out checks related to the legality of the extension of the building to which you refer”representatives of the Brașov Police declared for “Adevărul”.
Marius Dunca, the president of PSD Brașov, stated to the journalists from Snoop, after the statements of Roxana Mînzatu from Parliament, that he will send them the document that the Mînzatu family owns and which certifies that the building where they live in Brasov would have been downgraded from the historical monuments.
The document that should have certified that the building on Lungă street is no longer a historical monument.
dates from October 28, 2011 and is signed by Ioan Daniel Cherecheș as director of the Cultural Heritage Directorate within the Ministry of Culture.
Neither Roxana Mînzatu nor her husband could say whether that document was published in the Official Gazette.
Law 422/2001 on the protection of historical monuments necessarily requires that the downgrading of a building from the list of historical monuments is done by ministerial order, which must be published in the Official Gazette.
Ștefan-Emilian Gamureac, director of the Cultural Heritage Directorate, stated, in his response to the Snoop.ro website, that the building on Lungă street in Brașov where the Mînzatu family lives is a historical monument and would not have been downgraded.
