Bulgarian mafia are proving quick to spot that as with any generous subsidies administered from afar, the Sapard programme of the EU is ripe for fraud, an article in the Telegraph states.
The plundering of the scheme, which handed over more than GBP 2 billion to Bulgaria between 2000 and 2006, is just one of the many murky tales surrounding what has really happened to the vast quantities of taxpayers' cash poured by Brussels bureaucrats into Europe's poorest nation, the article also reads and further elaborates on problems with corruption in Bulgaria and participation of the mafia in the government.