A group of citizens are accusing a bailiff of illegally taking away their homes and evicting them, children and elderly included.
At the beginning of 2018, Aleksandr took out a loan from a microcredit firm and pledged his apartment as collateral, he told a press conference. For a while he was able to make the payments on time, but when he began struggling with the payments, Aleksandr was given a strict deadline, and no one seemed to care about his pleas for settlement. In January, the bailiff Nicolae Pașa told Aleksandr he no longer owned his apartment. Soon the apartment was given to another owner and Aleksandr wasn’t even allowed to take the furniture and appliances.
Alexandr says the bailiff had no right to evict his family, including his minor children and his 80-year-old mother, in the dead of winter. His home was assessed at 500,000 lei, whereas the loan was half of that amount. Aleksandr accuses the bailiff of exceeding his powers and asks the law enforcement to intervene.
Nikolai, a friend of Aleksandr, says the credit firm disowned the man way too easily, and even before the original repayment deadline was to expire. Moreover, the bailiff Pașa is apparently the husband of the credit firm’s manager. Nikolai went on to further accuse Pașa of being involved in “illegal schemes as part of a criminal group working for Vladimir Plahotniuc.”
Ion, father of three, also considers himself to be a victim of Nicolae Pașa. He claims his family was dispossessed and evicted based on a fabricated criminal case over a nonexistent debt. Ion had divorced his wife, and she rightfully owned half of the shared home, yet the entire apartment was put up for sale by the bailiff. Moreover, Ion claims that Nicolae Pașa came with the eviction order without informing them beforehand and they couldn’t even take the apartment’s contents.
Lawyer Pavel Belîh says the situations are “outrageous”, especially since children’s rights were violated, which could eventually serve as a reason to complain to the European Court of Human Rights.