President of Romania's National Restitution Authority resigns

George Baesu, president of the National Authority for Property Restitution (ANRP), has resigned together with the two vice-presidents of the institution. He gave the Prime Minister Victor Ponta a memorandum where he claims the institution would have to pay fines for failing to offer compensation certificates in due time, reports local Mediafax. Baesu said there are thousands of lawsuits against ANRP, asking courts to rule tens of thousands of EUR against the institution, for not respecting the 30-day compensation deadline. He added the institution unveiled the shortcomings and problems in retrocessions, but it would also have to pay, while others did the robbery. He also said that he handed his resignation to Prime Minister Victor Ponta as he wants to approach the European Court of Human Rights whose rules establish that a head of the institution may not be amended without fault. "I want to show that my state, that I currently serve from the position of president, is unfair to me. I can't go against my state as long as I work for it," he said at local TV station Antena 3, reports Mediafax. editor@romania-insider.com