Intact Media Group makes the following statement regarding the legal arguments for which the Trust television stations continued to operate in the buildings registered in the state ownership after 08.08.2014:
THE PRE-EMPTION RIGHT
The existence of three pending court actions calling for the recognition of the pre-emption right to purchase the two properties (Bucharest-Ploiesti no. 25-27 and Garlei No 1B), a right conferred by the provisions of GEO no. 14/2007 and GD. 731/2007. One of these actions covering the pre-emption right to purchase the building in 25-27 Bucharest-Ploiesti was tried and won. The other two actions have not yet been prosecuted.
By decision no. 1299 of 04.11.2015, the court finds valid on 08.08.2014, the lease agreement between the applicant Antena TV Group S.A. and the defendant SC Applied Research and Investment Company S.A.. The court notes the applicant's pre-emptive right to purchase the building in Bucharest-Ploiesti no. 25-27 at the price set by the evaluation committee report based on technical expertise and revaluation, pursuant to article 22 par. 8 of the rules for the application of O.G. No.14 / 2007.
Therefore, according to GO 14/2007 and the decision cited above, the evaluation and capitalization of the ICA seized buildings must be made in compliance with GEO 14/2007, which stipulates the pre-emption right to purchase by the existing tenants on 08/08/2014.
In these circumstances, the eviction notice issued by NAFA on 02/15/2016 in violation of GEO 14/2007 (which does not provide anywhere for the eviction of tenants before exercising the right of pre-emption to purchase) is, according to the group, illegal, which is why it will exercise all legal remedies against any step that is not based on the provisions of GEO 14/2007.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH STATE AUTHORITIES
The State has not yet communicated concretely to our companies that it will not lease the properties. Moreover, the last reply received from the Ministry of Finance received on January 5, 2016, says that in order to respond to our request for rent, the SGG’s opinion is required and we will be informed expeditiously upon receipt of response from this organization.
Our group has not yet received a reply since then, except for the eviction notice, which, as stated above, are issued in violation of the provisions of GEO 14/2007 on regulating the manner and conditions of capitalizing the goods that became, according to the law, the state’s private property, the order which is the legal norm to be followed for the sale of goods which have become the state property by confiscation.
Intact Media Group complies with the law but cannot agree with the abuses. The group of more than ten people sent by NAFA to hand in a paper is a telling example in this regard. Intact Media Group pays to date its financial obligations to the Romanian state - a fundamental duty of every good citizen in a state. Our group values its country, helping, specifically, peers and communities in need. Intact Media Group has no shadow funders, and can justify, to the last penny, the money collected.
We reaffirm that we are not asking for any favors from the state authorities, but merely the observance of rights conferred by law. We believe that in - the rule of law state, plurality of views is an important prerogative under which our journalists acted over the years by comments or revelations of major corruption cases.