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The fund former head Vesselin Georgiev is charged with awarding contracts worth tens of millions of levs to companies run by two of his brothers. Photo by BGNES
Sofia City Court postponed on Monday the trial against the former head of the state-owned National Road Infrastructure Fund, who has been charged for giving lucrative contracts to his brothers.
The next hearing was scheduled for November 1, until when the magistrates expect to receive the required documentation about the correspondence between the government and the European Commission in the period from January to July 2008.
Vesselin Georgiev is charged with awarding contracts worth tens of millions of levs to companies run by two of his brothers.
The trial has been repeatedly postponed after either the defendant or witnesses failed to appear at the court room.
The controversy that led to the freezing of the EUR 723 M earmarked to improve Bulgaria's dilapidated roads broke out following an investigation by the newspaper Kapital.
Georgiev resigned from his post under pressure from the media.
This is one of a number of large-scale schemes for siphoning public funds for the personal benefit of close relatives of high-ranking servants, which have been recently unveiled in Bulgaria.
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