Bailiffs became businessmen who parasitize on budgets of public authorities, expert

“The bailiffs turned into businessmen rather quickly. They are paid millions of lei for their work and intentionally impose fines in order to receive money,” Corneliu Gurin, of the Association for Participative Democracy ADEPT, said in a news conference. According to him, after the system of court bailiffs was made private, the bailiffs started to parasitize on public budgets, Info-Prim Neo reports. ”I know a lot of persons who had court decisions to be implemented. The bailiff does not negotiate a contract for less than 5,000 lei,” said the expert, adding that the bailiffs earn millions of lei only when they take a document from an institution to another. ”The authorities employ the same methods as they have a budget to fulfill. If a court decision is not implemented, the bailiff imposes a fine and gets a part of it himself,” said Corneliu Gurin. He also said that the bailiffs enter the system in a non-transparent way and there are deontological and ethical problems in this system that should be dealt with.