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The former head of the state-owned National Road Infrastructure Fund Vesselin Georgiev. Photo by BGNES
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.
Vesselin Georgiev is charged with awarding contracts worth tens of millions of levs to companies run by two of his brothers.
The trial has been repeatedly postponed after either the defendant or witnesses failed to appear at the court room.
The controversy that led to the freezing of the 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 European Commission has decided to unfreeze a total of EUR 1,25 B for the improvement of Bulgaria's dilapidated roads, after blocking part of them last year following corruption charges against the former head of the state-owned infrastructure fund.
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Authorities in Bulgaria have charged two men, aged 29 and 20, with the murder of 20-year-old Marian Paskov from the town of Kula
A 41-year-old Russian woman was found dead in her home in the Bulgarian seaside town of Balchik
A 32-year-old man from Sofia has been charged with causing moderate bodily harm after attacking two meteorologists at the synoptic station on Murgash Peak in the Balkan Mountains
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