Health Minister Ilko Semerdjiev has not been officially served an indictment, the Health Ministry press office told BTA Friday following press reports that Semerdjiev would be held liable for violations of the Public Procurement Act in signing a contract with the US company Aremis Soft. Semerdjiev has been summoned at the Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office to answer questions about a contract between the National
Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) and Aremis Soft Corporation, the Health Ministry says in a message faxed to BTA. He has not been arrested and his international and diplomatic passports have not been taken. The Health Ministry press office believe that the enquiry followed a letter by former socialist MP Kuncho Marangozov to the prosecution office over alleged irregularities in the contract. The faxed message says further that the contract in question was signed in 1999 when Semerdjiev was NHIF chief and remains the most heavily scrutinized document in the history of NMIF. In a series of statements made over more than a year now, both NMIF and personally Semerdjiev have provided full and truthful information about the contract. The State Financial Control and the Audit Office have announced the result of their inspections, that no losses had been incurred on the budget.

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