* BCR is the third bank which saw complaints about thefts from its safe deposit boxes in the last year
* BCR: "Safe deposit boxes can only be opened with unique access keys which are in possession of the clients, after the use of another unique key which is in possession of the bank"
It would be a very nice thing that the bank doesn't ask you what valuables you have put inside the safe deposit box, if those valuables didn't get stolen afterwards.
Yesterday, three new complaints about missing valuables from safe deposit boxes were made, after another client had complained recently.
A few had complained two or three months ago.
Another complaint was filed one year ago.
In the name of confidentiality, the content of safe deposit boxes remains unknown to the bank.
This principle would be nice, if those valuables didn't get stolen.
The fact that banks don't ask for a listing of the contents of the safe deposit box allows them to dispute the missing objects claims, which means it sometimes gets to the ridiculous situation where the bank can get to claim that the customer couldn't have owned the valuables that were stolen, because they don't have the kind of businesses that could generate the amount of money that they claim they had in their safety deposit box.
The complaints of the theft victims were actually proven true afterwards.
Are the plaintiffs crooks?
Or are the banks' employees thieves?
I don't know.
We don't rule out the third option, in which the bank employees are thieves and they are in cahoots with the clients making the complaints.
But, one way or another, the safe deposit boxes services seem compromised.
* Four thefts from safe deposit boxes, at the central headquarters of BCR Piteşti
Three thefts from safe deposit boxes were reported in the last three days at th