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The Bulgarian company VM Corporation, owned by Valeri Petrov, has been tangled in a scandal in neighboring Romania over a public order for the delivery of food staples for the poor.
The company has participated in similar tenders in Bulgaria as well.
The Bulgarian Capital daily writes that VM Corporation has won a bid to deliver flour and cooking oil for the poor in Romania for a total of EUR 60.7 M. The company has received an installment of EUR 26.6 M and has delivered 30% of the order upon which the entire amount has been wired to it. After that, the Bulgarian firm simply disappeared.
Gheorghe Benu, general manager of the Romanian Agency of Payments, APIA, is quoted saying his country has no other way to deal with the issue, but to wait for a response from a Bulgarian bank, guarantor in the deal.
Romanian journalists and Bulgarian colleagues from Capital have been unsuccessful in their attempts to get in touch with VM Corporation.
APIA further informed they were holding talks with Bulgaria's First Investment Bank, but declined any further comments for Capital.
Petrov is the single owner of VM Corporation. In 2012, he won in Bulgaria a public bid for the delivery of rice for the poor in the amount of BGN 1.5 M. He was sanctioned with a fine of BGN 480 000 over a similar delay.
Romania is mulling replacing the delivery of food staples with vouchers over such irregularities, the Bulgarian online news agency Dnevnik writes Friday.
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