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Gyunay Sefer and Mithat Tabakov, former MPs from the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, DPS, have been sentenced to 10 and 11 years of imprisonment, respectively, for siphoning off funds earmarked for infrastructure projects in the northeastern Bulgarian districts of Dulovo and Silistra.
The two other defendants in the case, Rositsa Milcheva and Vesko Pachkinski, were sentenced to seven years of imprisonment each, mediapool.bg informed.
The prosecuting authority expressed satisfaction with the verdict, while the defendants declined to comment.
The decision of the Sofia City Court can be appealed before the Sofia Appellate Court.
The indictment describes a scheme through which the four defendants drained over BGN 370 000 from the Public Investment Projects EAD company by declaring untrue circumstances regarding completed road construction projects.
The fraud scheme is related to two public procurement contracts for the construction of a 7- kilometer stretch of a rural road between the village of Okorsh, Dulovo municipality, and the main Silistra-Shumen road in end-2006.
This is the third sentence that Sofia City Court passed on Mithat Tabakov. The ruling can be appealed to the Sofia Appeals Court.
In 2011, then-Mayor of Dulovo Mithat Tabakov was sentenced to 5 years in prison on a charges of violating the Public Procurement Act by awarding a public contract for the construction of a new water supply and sewerage system to a company close to his family.
In the autumn of 2012, Tabakov was found guilty in a bribery case.
Tabakov was found to have taken a bribe of BGN 10 000 in 2004 from the former Director of the Water Supply and Sewerage company in Silistra, Petko Gorbanov, to sign a public procurement contract for the renovation of the water supply network.
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