Final ruling: Two properties of Klaus Iohannis return to the state

Two of the buildings owned by Klaus Iohannis and his wife, Carmen, in Sibiu belong to the state, and the money obtained from the rents, 260,000 euros, must be returned, informs Digi24. The High Court of Cassation and Justice decided on Wednesday, definitively, in a dispute regarding the right of inheritance.

It is about a building at 35 Gheorghe Magheru street in Sibiu.

The High Court of Cassation and Justice ruled on Wednesday in a trial opened in 2016, regarding the inheritance of a property that belonged to the president’s wife, Carmen Iohannis.

The lawsuit was opened by Rodica Baștea, a friend of the Iohannis family, established in Miami, who owned the respective building together with Carmen Iohannis and her mother-in-law. Rodica Baștea requested in court 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 today the High Court definitively rejected her appeal.

According to ANAF, 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.

Following today’s decision of the supreme court, ANAF can register the two buildings and start the procedure to recover the money from the rents from the Iohannis family.

It is the second house in Sibiu that President Iohannis and his wife lost in court. In November 2015, Carmen and Klaus Iohannis lost in court a first building in Sibiu – the commercial space at 29 Nicolae Bălcescu Street (pedestrian thoroughfare with terraces leading to Piața Mare). The judges of the Brasov Court of Appeal then decided that the building bought by Iohannis belongs to the state, because the original owner no longer has legal heirs.