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Photo dated August 2009 showing the Kalina Ilieva (R) as newly-appointed head of Bulgaria's Agriculture Fund, and Minister of Agriculture Miroslav Naydenov (L). Photo by BGNES
Kalina Ilieva, the notorious head of Bulgaria's agriculture fund who was recently fired for her forged diploma, has flooded the EU anti-fraud agency with hundreds of fraud signals, according to agriculture minister Miroslav Naydenov.
Naydenov wondered why Ilieva had sent as many as 400 signals for possible frauds in the absorption of agriculture funds in Bulgaria during here mere one year in office. "Here you have a situation in which the thief cries out "Thief!"," exclaimed the Bulgarian Minister of Agriculuture.
Naydenov's words come in the wake of a string of statements in which senior government officials have attempted to distance themselves from Ilieva or plain out attack her.
This is only natural, as Naydenov and PM Boyko Borisov have been placed in the uncomfortable situation of having to explain why they have appointed a person of such dubious credentials to an office of such responsibility.
The confusion and embarassment was evident from the start, given that Ilieva's leaving office was first strangely motivated by an "illness," which then turned out to actually be a "pregnancy," and only recently it became apparent that Ilieva's diploma from the Berlin Technical University is actually forged.
To boot, Ilieva's father turned out to be the head of the Sofia Fire Department, Ivan Iliev. He will resign as a result of the events.
Minister Naydenov and PM Borisov have been maintaining that they were subjected to consistent lies and manipulation by Ilieva, and knew neither of her forged degree, nor who her father was.
Apparently the public has to believe that those senior statesmen were victimized by the cunning and treacherous Ilieva.
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