Two houses owned by Klaus and Carmen Iohannis in Sibiu have now passed to the Romanian state. What’s more, the Iohannis couple must return the money they obtained in rent from these buildings: 260,000 euros.
The High Court of Cassation and Justice ruled on Wednesday in a trial opened in 2016 regarding the inheritance of a building which actually belonged to the Romanian’s president wife.
The lawsuit was opened by Rodica Baștea, a friend of the Iohannis family, who lives in Miami, who owned the respective building together with Carmen Iohannis and her mother-in-law.
Baștea, whose husband sold the Iohannis a portion of a house in Sibiu, requested the annulment of a certificate by which the Romanian state was declared the legal heir of a building in Sibiu.
Rodica Baștea lost the case in all courts, and the High Court definitively rejected her appeal.
Due to disputes with the inheritance, the Romanian state could not recover another building that belonged to the president – a commercial space in Sibiu – nor the sum of 260,000 euros obtained by the Iohannis family from rents. But following yesterday’s decision of the supreme court, ANAF can register the two buildings and begin recovering rent.
“It is about a civil action in which the plaintiff is sought to be recognized as a successor over a share of two buildings located in Sibiu, for one of which the Romanian state has a certificate of heirship, as it appears from the documents currently in the file. It is about the debate of four subsequent successions”, judicial sources said in 2016.
Rodica Baştea requests her family’s right of succession over parts of the houses owned by spouses Maria and Eliseu Ghenea in Sibiu, on Bălcescu and Magheru streets respectively. The trial began in the fall of 2016 at the Sibiu Court, and Rodica Baştea filed a request for relocation to another court.
The Iohannis couple bought a portion of the Ghenea house. The Ghana couple died childless, but the Baştea family were distant relatives. Tenants bought the house in 1997, though these contracts were annulled in court in 1999.
The former tenants then disputed the Baştea family’s right to the building, and now the tenants have regained and consolidated their right of ownership over the buildings in question.
In short, the Iohannis family, as buyers, are not to blame in this saga – but still have to return their goods to the Romanian state.
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