Former President Klaus Iohannis is targeted by a lawsuit filed by the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) at the Sibiu Tribunal.
The Romanian state, through the Regional Directorate of Public Finance Brasov, seeks to compel him to pay damages for the lack of use of half of a property located in the center of Sibiu.
According to a statement from ANAF sent to Spotmedia.ro on Thursday, the action represents the continuation of the Tax Authority's efforts to assert the state's ownership rights over the property and recover the sums deemed owed.
The document specifies that the defendants (the Iohannis couple) have refused voluntary payment, prompting the Tax Authority to request the court to impose precautionary measures on their assets (seizure of assets) to ensure the recovery of damages.
ANAF states that "all legal measures will be promptly taken" to defend the state's interests.
It is worth mentioning that in early October, ANAF forcibly took over half of the property in the center of Sibiu illegally owned by Klaus Iohannis from 1999 to 2015.
As the Iohannis couple did not want to be present and claimed they did not have the keys to the house, a forced entry was made, and the lock was changed.
Since then, the Tax Authority announced that Iohannis would be sued for the recovery of illegally obtained money from renting the property, nearly one million euros.
The Story of the Property Illegally Owned by the Iohannis Couple
In August, ANAF notified the family of former President Klaus Iohannis to release half of the property on Nicolae Bălcescu Street in Sibiu that they owned.
Additionally, the Iohannis family must also pay 4.7 million lei (nearly one million euros), an amount representing rents collected from 1999 to 2015.
The money was calculated by an independent evaluator, adjusted for inflation and legal interest, without taking into account the expenses incurred by the Iohannis family for maintaining the space.
The notification, sent in mid-August, concerns the commercial space on the ground floor of the property.
The space has not been used since 2015, but from 1999 to 2015, the Iohannis family earned substantial income from rents. In total, the Tax Authority assessed the value of the rents and lack of use at 4.7 million lei.
We remind that the family of the former president lost definitively in court, in September 2024, two properties in Sibiu to the benefit of the Romanian state, including the money obtained from renting them.