Finance Minister Eugen Teodorescu on Sunday night said he wanted to know why the tax agency had failed to collect allegedly unpaid dues from President Klaus Iohannis for years.
Romania’s Finance Minister, Eugen Teodorovici, on Sunday said he had ordered a probe into the tax agency and other affiliated agencies, claiming they had failed to get President Klaus Iohannis to pay about 1.2 million RON [about 260,000 euros] that he obtained from renting out a house, which he then lost in a court case.
After a trial that lasted 16 years, a Brasov court in 2015 ordered Iohannis to return the house he had bought in 1999 from an alleged heir back to the state.
During the years of the trial, Iohannis had rented out the house to a bank and collected 1.2 million RON rent, according to the Finance Ministry.
The head of the tax agency, former Finance Minister Ionut Misa, said that he had not ordered Iohannis to pay back the money because he had not received the proper documentation from the Finance Ministry.
Iohannis has never commented on the affair and his office was not immediately able to respond to BIRN’s inquiries.
The house in Sibiu was used for years by tenants who paid rent to the state because its heirs could not be located.
After Iohannis and his wife bought it in 1999 from an alleged heir, the former tenants sued. Iohannis lost the case in 2015, when the judge returned the property to the Romanian state.
Iohannis has requested an annulment of the court ruling that denied his ownership rights over the house.
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