Interior Minister Rumen Petkov and senior prosecutor Boris Velchev pay Tuesday a crisis visit to Brussels to discuss the recent corruption scandal in Bulgaria that made the EU freeze subsidy payments for infrastructure.

The two are scheduled to meet Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for justice, freedom, and security Franco Frattini.

Last week the EU froze the infrastructure subsidies as Bulgaria's fund directors were caught red-handed while receiving BGN 25,000 bribe, demanded from a proprietor owning a plot near the route of the Hemus highway, which is now under construction.

One of the officials, Lyubomir Lilov, is the director of the "Utilization of EU Funds" Directorate, and the other is his subordinate Ivan Vladimirov - head of the ISPA Program Department.

Before the payments are renewed, EC insist on unconditional evidence that could prove the misappropriation is not related to the European block financing.

A topic in the discussion with Frattini will also be the coming monitoring report by the European Commission over the Judiciary chapter of Bulgaria's membership agreement.

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