The case with the Crown Agents contract is not considered by court, Finance Minister Velchev said. He confessed that he was provided with a statement of the Chief Prosecutor’s Office, according to which the contract with Crown Agents to reform the Bulgarian customs “is not entirely in accord with the laws in Bulgaria.” Velchev pointed out, though, that the opinion on the case is not of the chief prosecutor but belongs to one of the prosecutors. Velchev added that he hasn’t been called in the Prosecutor’s Office for anything and the prosecutors did not demand a copy of the contract with the company Crown Agents. He informed the journalists that he will present the Crown Agents report on the state of the customs in Parliament by the end of April. Scandals shook Bulgaria after a series of transcripts from closed-door governmental meetings were published in Bulgaria’s daily Trud. The shorthand reports showed that the Cabinet was deliberately looking for ways to bypass the Public Procurement Act, which is normally applied for all government contracts.

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