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The former head of the state-owned National Road Infrastructure Fund Vesselin Georgiev. Photo by BGNES
The brothers of the notorious former Executive Director of the Republican Road Infrastructure Fund, Vesselin Georgiev, refused to testify during his Wednesday trial.
Boyko and Emil Georgievi took advantage of their right to not be a witness in the trial of a relative.
Vesselin Georgiev aka Batko (Big Brother) is charged with abuse of power for the July 2006 - November 2007 period.
As Executive Director of the Republican Road Infrastructure Fund, in violation of the Public Tenders Act, Georgiev had approved contracts between the Fund and different companies amounting to BGN 120 M, with the goal to provide profits for his two brothers.
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The controversy that led to the freezing of 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.
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.
Emil Georgiev, the brother of Bulgaria's former road agency chief Veselin Georgiev, has been found guilty of covering up conflict of interests in public procurement deals.
Three former Bulgarian ministers have been called upon to testify in a legal case of conflict of interest involving the former head of the state-owned Bulgarian National Road Infrastructure Agency, Vesselin Georgiev, it emerged on Wednesday.
Bulgaria's finance ministry has declassified the financial audit of the state-owned National Road Infrastructure Fund, whose former head is being tried for corruption.
Bulgaria's former Deputy Finance Minister, Dimitar Ivanovski, who appeared as witness in the trial of the former Head of the National Road Infrastructure Fund, failed to offer any relevant insight Thursday.
The former head of the state-owned National Road Infrastructure Fund, who is being tried for corruption, will be expected to turn up at Sofia City Court on Thursday.
A large-scale police operation involving the special unit “Cobra” is underway in Sofia’s Lyulin district, as well as at several other locations across the capital, according to NOVA sources.
Fourteen people have been formally charged for their role in the violence that broke out during the December 1 protest in central Sofia
At the request of the Pleven District Prosecutor’s Office, the Pleven District Court has ordered the pre-trial detention of three men, citizens of Georgia, who are accused of migrant trafficking
Handcuffed and with his head bowed, 24-year-old Juney Dyulgerov appeared before the Plovdiv District Court in connection with the tragic traffic accident on the Plovdiv Ring Road
The 23-year-old son of a prominent businessman from Madan, Bulgaria, was violently killed and his body discarded in a local river, the Smolyan District Prosecutor's Office confirmed
In Sofia’s “Studentski Grad” neighborhood, a minor was fatally stabbed following a violent altercation in front of a local restaurant
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