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ANAF started checkups on two of the banks that are currently operating in Romania without profit
The National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) has started checkups on two of the banks that are currently operating in Romania without profit, in order to see what happens there, Prime Minister Mihai Tudose stated on Sunday evening.
He also added that, among the 36 banks currently operating in Romania, "18 are making profit and 18 are not."
"Yes, this is a good start, this is the first month when they exceeded the plan; not just achieved the plan, but exceeded it. (...) They started to do checkups everywhere, and I will give you an example with the banks. We have 36 active banks in Romania right now, among which 18 are making profit and 18 are not. And I think that we should help them (...) maybe set up a foundation to help them, since I understand that they came here to help us and, I don't know, maybe they are some branches of the Red Cross, or maybe they came here thinking that we are all wearing T-shirts reading: our fools! The ANAF has already started checkups at two of them, to see what is actually happening there. I tell you this honestly, and I take responsibility for it, that we are going to be forced to come up publicly at some point and say: these banks have not been making profit for one year, two years, four, and we are not sure that it's safe for you to keep your savings there. (...) I'm sorry, but we are talking about banks here, and if a bank does not make profit, that means it's losing money, and, doesn't this mean that it could risk bankruptcy?" Mihai Tudose told Antena 3, when asked if he was pleased with the manner in which ANAF is doing its job after he made some changes at this institution's management level.
Moreover, when asked if he believes that this was some kind of "a trick" on the part of the respective banks and who helped them up to here, the PM said: "Oh, yes. It was the state, the state in general."