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Defense Minister Mladenov expects a third charge against his predecessor over violations. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria’s Defense Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, said Thursday that a minor “loophole” in the Public Procurement Act allowed large-scale violations.
Mladenov spoke in an interview for Nova TV on the issues of the public procurement legislation with respect to the Defense Ministry.
In his words, his administration in the Defense Ministry has been inspecting the Public Procurement Act for two weeks, and discovered a legal loophole in it allowing for picking companies for Defense Ministry orders without the proper competition procedures.
Thus, a number of tenders for the delivery of items from bullet-proof vests to computers were “won” by companies picked directly by the former Ministry officials, which generated corruption.
According to Mladenov, one of the big problems at the Defense Ministry is the fact that certain officials work on certain public procurement orders, then retire, and go to work for the company which had been picked to carry out the respective order.
The Prosecutor’s Office has raised two charges over violations against former Defense Minister Nikolay Tsonev but Mladenov said he expected a third charge to be raised as well since he sent three volumes with evidence about abuses of the previous administration to the prosecutors.
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