Romania’s National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) has “requested” that former president Klaus Iohannis vacate a property in his native Sibiu, after a long legal battle over the property has ended in his disfavor.
Perhaps more painfully, ANAF has also mandated that Iohannis return rents amassed from 1999 to 2015.
Around this time last year, Klaus and Carmen Iohannis were similarly ordered to hand over two buildings and rent amassing to EUR 260,000 to the Romanian state by the the Romanian High Court (ICCJ) in a somewhat similar dispute regarding inheritance, which the couple lost to the rightful inheritors.
Last year, Iohannis fell under the harsh light of public disapproval after his spending habits during his second presidency became scrutinized. As Romanian faced chaos with the events of its cancelled presidential election, it seemed that Iohannis’s mistakes were forgotten.
No chance. At the beginning of August ANAF ordered Iohannis to return nearly one million euros in rent, penalties, and interest linked to properties in Sibiu lost to him in court.
But ANAF is not satisfied, and seeks justice from Klaus Iohannis on the subject of yet another property.
At this point, exact sums are “protected by fiscal secrecy”, but the rent this property, declared illegally owned by Iohannis since 2015, garners was significant to say the least: with its sum of 320,000 euros, Iohannis bought three more houses.
