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The former head of the state-owned National Road Infrastructure Fund Vesselin Georgiev. Photo by BGNES
The brothers of the notorious former Executive Director of the Republican Road Infrastructure Fund, Vesselin Georgiev, refused to testify during his Wednesday trial.
Boyko and Emil Georgievi took advantage of their right to not be a witness in the trial of a relative.
Vesselin Georgiev aka Batko (Big Brother) is charged with abuse of power for the July 2006 - November 2007 period.
As Executive Director of the Republican Road Infrastructure Fund, in violation of the Public Tenders Act, Georgiev had approved contracts between the Fund and different companies amounting to BGN 120 M, with the goal to provide profits for his two brothers.
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The controversy that led to the freezing of 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 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.
Authorities in Bulgaria are investigating a severe case of domestic violence in the village of Sitovo, Silistra region, after a man set a woman on fire and later took his own life.
Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry has seized a total of 1 million euros during ongoing operations targeting vote buying, according to an announcement by Acting Secretary General Chief Commissioner Georgi Kandev
A young man from Chirpan has died after spending months in a coma following a violent assault that reportedly began over a dispute involving cigarettes
A 53-year-old man with a criminal record has been detained in Bulgaria during a targeted police operation against vote buying, carried out in the village of Brestnitsa in the Lovech region
A criminal network linked to Bulgaria has been accused of defrauding dozens of elderly people in northern Greece through an elaborate telephone scam that resulted in losses exceeding 600,000 euros, according to Kathimerini.
A premeditated murder investigation is underway after a violent incident in the village of Kokalyane near Sofia, where a man is accused of fatally stabbing another person inside a garage that had been adapted for living
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