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Bulgaria's specialized unit for fighting fraud with EU funds in the Prosecutor's Office filed ten indictments only in July.
This has been announced by the director of the unit, Angelina Mitova, who replaced the former director, Margarita Popova, now the Justice Minister.
In her words, the Prosecutor's Office is investigating 800 cases connected to the schemes for unified area payments conducted by the "Zemedelie"(Agriculture) state fund.
After a meeting between representatives of the EU anti-fraud watchdog, OLAF, the fund, and the Prosecutor's Office, 98 projects were sent to the prosecution for check-up. The meeting aimed to compare debtors' documentation, and it eventually turned out that there was a large number of violations which had not been listed by the "Zemedelie" fund officials.
Currently, the anti-fraud unit is working on 1035 inter-departmental correspondence letters. There are 53 penal prosecutions for SAPARD frauds.
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