The vice mayor of Sibiu got rid of a loan without paying it. The first executor gave up, he had nothing left to capitalize on. “Fog” in Bokor’s statements

The vice mayor of Sibiu, Corina Bokor, won a lawsuit at the end of last year against a company that sought to recover the equivalent of more than 40,000 euros from a loan accessed in 2008. Loan whose installments have not been paid since 2013, according to the data from the process, and for whose recovery two enforcement files were opened. The first one was closed because the executor had no assets of the vice-mayor’s family to use, and the second one – as a result of the fact that the statute of limitations had expired.

Corina Bokor, the vice-mayor of Sibiu from the FDGR, spoke about the process in the meeting of the local Council that took place on Wednesday afternoon. Questioned at the time of the interpellations from the public by the deposed policeman Marian Răduinea, Corina Bokor showed that the lawsuit was won because the recovery company demanded an amount already paid. “I declared what I had to declare. And I had a lawsuit with those companies who – although I paid – asked me to pay once more. I proved in court that I paid. The rest I have nothing to tell you. If you have questions, we are talking through the lawyer, I don’t have all the documents in front of me now to be able to answer you, nor is it the time,” said Corina Bokor.

The data from the trial concluded on December 14, 2023 show, however, a completely different version than the one presented by Corina Bokor before the local deliberative. That lawsuit was opened by Corina Bokor and her husband to contest the action of a debt recovery company, Investcapital LTD, which – through a bailiff, blocked the family’s bank accounts during October last year.

After more than 40,000 euros

According to the data in the reasons for the decision of the Sibiu Court in this case, the spouses Corina and Mihai Bokor accessed a loan for a period of 300 months (25 years) from the former MKB Romexterra Bank on February 28, 2008 – at that time Corina Bokor was not , still, locally elected. The amount of the credit accessed in 2008 is not mentioned in the court’s reasoning.

In May 2011, the loan was modified by an addendum, whereby a repayment schedule was agreed, after which the Bokor family stopped paying any installments for the repayment of the loan from June 2013 (when Corina Bokor was a local councilor of Sibiu).

Therefore, the bank hired a bailiff, who opened a foreclosure case in the same year. Six years later, more precisely in July 2019, “the forced execution was ordered to cease, considering that the forced execution could no longer be continued due to the lack of assets of the debtors Bokor Mihai and Bokor Corina”, as recorded by the Sibiu court.

At that time, Corina Bokor was already deputy mayor of Sibiu. According to the wealth declarations submitted, he owned no house, no land, no cars, no savings in accounts, the only declared income being the salary of the deputy mayor (the equivalent of approximately 12,000 lei per month) and the salary of a personal assistant (approximately 1,000 lei per month ) collected by Corina Bokor’s son, employed at the Social Assistance Department of Sibiu City Hall.

The debt was later bought by the collectors from Investcapital LTD. In 2022, they opened a new enforcement case against the family of the deputy mayor of Sibiu “for the recovery of the debt in the amount of 41,323.11 euros, representing principal debt and interest”.

Second execution: it has expired

The Bokor family opened a lawsuit against the new foreclosure file, which ended in mid-December last year. Corina and Mihai Bokor invoked before the court the fact that, in the meantime, the prescription had intervened on their debts. And the court gave them justice. “From the date of 16.07.2019, the date of issuance of the decision to terminate execution from execution file no. 294/2013, a new 3-year limitation period began to run, which expired on 16.07.2022. Consequently, compared to the time of the formulation of the request for forced execution within the execution file no. no. 2401 of 2022, respectively 29.09.2022, the court notes that the 3-year limitation period expired prior to the introduction of a new enforcement application. (…) Admits the challenge to the enforcement filed by the appellants Bokor Corina and Bokor Mihai, contrary to the respondent Investcapital Ltd. Cancels all the enforcement documents issued”, the judgment of the Sibiu Court states.

Within ten days from the communication, those from Investcapital did not file an appeal, therefore the decision remained final and irrevocable.

A credit that does not appear on the asset statements

If Corina Bokor’s explanations in front of the local councilors do not correspond to what appears in the documents before the court, the situation in the asset declarations of the deputy mayor of Sibiu is not clear either. “Wealth declarations can be checked every time and are correctly drawn up,” assured Corina Bokor yesterday.

However, the loan that has not been repaid by the Bokor family does not appear in the declarations of wealth completed by the local councilor and, later, the deputy mayor Corina Bokor.

In the first wealth declaration completed in 2012, Corina Bokor lists two loans, both accessed in 2007. One from the Bank

Transilvania, worth 350,000 lei and due in 2017, and one from MKB Nextebank. But, contrary to the data from the process described above, Corina Bokor showed that this loan is due in 2012, with a value of 28,000 lei.

In the next declaration of assets, the one submitted in 2013, Corina Bokor does not mention anything about the loan from MKB Nextebank, but only about the one from Banca Transilvania. The situation is repeated in the declaration submitted in the following year.

After which, in 2015, Corina Bokor declares again the loan from Banca Transilvania, but also a loan accessed in 2007 from Nextebank, due in 2017 and with a value of 40,000 lei. In the 2018 statement, this credit of 40,000 lei no longer exists, but the 350,000 lei, accessed from Banca Transilvania, remains. And this disappears in the next year’s statement (the one from 2019), being replaced by another loan from Alpha Bank, worth 90,000 lei and accessed in 2018.

During Thursday afternoon, Turnul Sfatului tried to contact the deputy mayor Corina Bokor, in order to provide clarifications on the subjects described above. Until the time of publication of this material, Corina Bokor has not answered either phone calls, written messages, or e-mails sent to her work address.

He did not participate in the launch of the FDGR candidates

On Thursday morning, FDGR presented its candidates for the local elections scheduled for early June. However, Corina Bokor was missing from the team built around mayor Astrid Fodor, who is running for a new mandate.

“Mr. Tischer, who is the president of the Forum’s Siberian organization, will answer you”, answered Astrid Fodor to the question why she is not present at the event and Corina Bokor is among the candidates.

Astrid Fodor and Corina Bokor

Even Gabriel Tischer did not offer a clear answer, however. “As far as Ms. Bokor is concerned, you will know when we release the full list of advisors,” Tischer said. “He didn’t discuss this topic with me,” Tischer answered, when asked if he had discussed with the vice mayor of Sibiu about her desire to run again.

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