Dorin Chirtoaca: It is highway robbery
“It is highway robbery,” Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca said, referring to the sale by the Public Property Agency of a plot on Sarmisegetuza St, on which there is located the public bathhouse. He informed that the City Hall sued the Agency because the plot is municipal property, Info-Prim Neo reports.
Dorin Chirtoaca Monday said that by a decision of the Chisinau Municipal Council of 2002, the given plot was included in the municipality’s Register of Real Estate, while in 2007 the Communist government included this plot in the list of property that was to be privatized.
According to the mayor, the municipality repeatedly asked that the given plot be removed from the list. Another decision was taken in 2010, whereby the land was declared municipal property. In 2011, the Chisinau administration requested the Ministry of Economy to strike it off the list of property that was to be privatized. As a result of the letter, the Ministry privatized the land.
Dorin Chirtoaca stated that the plot was sold for 2.5 million lei and now the owner asks for 75 ares of the adjoining land. In reality, a plot in that region costs about €1 million.