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The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Finance Ministry inspectors have been asked to audit Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) and the way in which the company spent 700 million leva in state funding allocated under the previous cabinet, Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov said during question time in Parliament on November 27.Set-up in September 2008 as the umbrella holding for most state-owned energy assets by the socialist-led cabinet of Sergei...
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The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The saga of Bulgaria’s fiscal reserve and how it was used by the government of former prime minister Sergei Stanishev is far from over, with prosecutors asked to investigate the secret deal struck by former finance minister Plamen Oresharski and central bank governor Ivan Iskrov.The media blackout on the issue was deliberate, to allow prosecutors to carry out the investigation without...
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The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... was minister of labour and social policy in the 2005 to 2009 cabinet headed by her party leader, Sergei Stanishev.Maslarova is accused of abusing her office in connection with the awarding of a contract, for an excessive sum of money, to refurbish a social services centre in Stara Zagora. Charges reportedly relate to Maslarova having embezzled more than 9.8 million leva, and the purchase...
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The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... as expenses made by Azeri Melikov, who was said to have close ties to former prime minister Sergei Stanishev, had actually been made by Nikolov.Over a period of 16 months, Information Services had rented out six of the real estate properties the company owns, mostly in the Sofia boroughs of Dianabad and Izgrev. Part of the rent, however, had been settled on without the legally required...
