The Electricity System Operator (ESO) treated all its employees and the company’s management with BGN 1,700 per cap. The order of the executive director of the state enterprise Angelin Tsachev is from January 10. And the reason for the bonus is that ESO celebrates a birthday – the company is 15 years old.
The company is the electricity transmission operator engaged in the management and administration of the high voltage electricity transmission network in our country. It manages the country’s electricity transmission system and ensures its balanced and quality operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
A reader of OFFNews sent us a signal for the January “treats” in the company, in which the order itself is attached.
ESO is a company in excellent financial condition, but another issue is that the company’s costs are calculated in the price of electricity. And in recent months, electricity is a record high for businesses, and Bulgarian consumers pay for it out of pocket because of the rise in prices for a number of goods and services. Against this background, to spend millions on a birthday treat is, to put it mildly, scandalous.
Here is the signal to our media:
Dear editors,
Although businesses and society are currently exhausted by high electricity prices, one of the energy companies whose costs determine the price of electricity – Electricity System Operator distributes BGN 1,700 to its more than 4,000 employees on the occasion of the anniversary. I am sending you the order, and the money has already been transferred to the employees’ accounts.
Please keep my identity secret for security reasons.
And here is the order of the boss Tsachev with the generous bonuses:
OFFNews sent the following questions to the press service of the Electricity System Operator:
– Is it true that all ESO employees received a bonus of BGN 1,700 on the occasion of the company’s anniversary?
– How many employees have been paid this amount?
– Did the ESO employees also receive Christmas bonuses and in what amount?
Instead of answering the questions asked by the state company, we received a request to provide them (!?!) With the reader signal we received. After a few more hours, ESO explained that they had no practice of commenting on anonymous signals, although in this case it was not a question of commenting on an “anonymous signal”, but of answering very officially asked oral and written journalistic questions.
The ESO birthday treat is no exception in the state structures. Two days ago it became clear that in 2021 in the system of the National Revenue Agency (NRA) were given bonuses totaling over BGN 31.8 million. This was announced by the civil movement BOEC, referring to data obtained under the Law on access to public information (APIA).
Only the Central Office of the National Revenue Agency has spent over BGN 10.5 million on bonuses, according to the information provided to the non-governmental organization.
However, it lacks information on the amount of bonuses received from the director of the agency Rumen Spetsov. The reason is that he refused to provide it because it is “personal data”.
It can be assumed that the high bonuses in the revenue agency are due to the high tax collection. At the end of 2021, the tax authorities announced that they had collected over BGN 3.2 billion more than in 2020.
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