ANRP president Dorina Danilescu said after Tuesday’s Government meeting that of the 38,000 compensation requests submitted between 2005 and 2007, about 21,000 have not been distributed to be analyzed, while the remaining 17,000, although distributed, have not been analyzed and settled.
Also, some 80% of the files for which compensatory certificates have been issued did not include legal heir certificates.
The chairperson of ANRP, Crinuta Dumitrean, resigned on October 4, after ANRP vice-president Remus Baciu had been arrested on charges of corruption. She was replaced by Danielescu, by order of the prime minister.
ANRP is in charge with distributing Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) shares in compensation for property seized in the communist era.
The Government on Tuesday decided to suspend for six months the issue of certificates whereby the people whose property was abusively seized during the communist period receive compensations, Government spokesperson Dan Suciu said Tuesday.
Suciu said the measure is necessary to “consolidate” the normative frame needed to enforce the legislation in the field. He added that the measure was taken as a result of an internal audit, the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) compelling Romania to tackle the issue of compensations within an 18-month deadline, which expires soon, and the fact that the state holds only few shares in Fondul Proprietatea. The state currently owns 2.69% of the fund’s shares, via the Finance Ministry, and also a mere 0.04%.