At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia, the mayor of the city of General Toshevo was arrested today in connection with an investigation into fraud with subsidies for a project to increase energy efficiency. This was announced by the European Prosecutor’s Office, headed by Laura Köveshi.
Searches were also carried out in the premises of the municipality, in the offices of officials suspected of participation in the investigated crimes. Several witnesses and suspects will be interrogated, the announcement added.
The facts refer to the period 2017-2019. It is a matter of grant-in-aid received by the municipality under a project to increase energy efficiency in multi-family residential buildings, financed by the European Union, in the amount of 169,000 euros (about BGN 330,000) . The project has been awarded to a private contractor, EPPO explains.
According to the evidence, officials involved in the project, including the mayor, provided false information regarding the execution of construction and assembly works that were not completed within the established period.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has held several landmark actions in Bulgaria in recent months. One of them was related to the yellow paving stones in Sofia.
So far, the people of Kyoveshi in Bulgaria cannot boast of particular successes in court. The first sentence, reached with an agreement, is 1 year suspended. Another case of the European Prosecutor’s Office – for bribery, and recently ended at the second instance with 6 months probation.
At the same time, several EU prosecutors left, and Kyoveshi sent an audit to Bulgaria because of the problems. The result of it has not yet been publicly announced, and the latest information provided to “Now” on the subject from Luxembourg states that the report will still be presented to the collegium of the European Prosecutor’s Office.
The first case, which the European Prosecutor’s Office brought to the court in Bulgaria, ended with a 6-month suspended sentence and after the Sofia Court of Appeal ruled on it as a second instance. That’s what “Now” saw in the business records. At the end of July
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2023-08-09 14:45:23
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