* Update 15:00 Two more people have filed complaints
The number of complaints filed concerning the disappearance of money and valuables from the safe deposit boxes in the BCR branch of Pitești has increased to ten after two more people filed complaints today, according to sources in the press.
Judicial sources said that the total loss in the ten cases exceeds 1.5 million Euros.
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Tomas Spurny, the executive chairman of BCR, recently wrote in an editorial "let's talks about what we can improve together".
It is a nice intention. But... we don't really see how we could improve together the security of safe deposit boxes of BCR, considering that over the last days over eight thefts have been reported from the central headquarters of BCR in Piteşti.
What is it that we should be doing?
Guard them ourselves?
At this moment, safe deposit boxes are looking like the least safe method for keeping extremely valuable goods. Even the most cursory research on this subject reveals that these boxes are not deposits, which means that they are not protected by the bank deposit guarantee funds, nor are the banks allowed to grant loans based on them, and they are not "safe". The most telling confirmation of that fact comes from the incidents which have recently occurred at BCR Piteşti.
By the time the newspaper went to print, eight complaints alleging thefts had been submitted to the central headquarters of BCR in Piteşti amounted to eight. Dinu Dănuţ, chief-commissioner of the County Police Inspectorate (IJP) of Argeş, told us that the authorities are convinced that the number of victims is even greater, and the total amount of the alleged losses exceeds one million Euros. He told us: "At the moment there are eight complaints. We hope there won't be any more of the bank's customers that file complaints, but as far as we are concer
