The Ministry of Culture learned about the scheme in the Razgrad theater at the same time as the investigators. However, it is not new. It is new only for Razgrad. This was stated in an interview with Nova TV by the line minister Nayden Todorov.
We remind you that the District Court in Plovdiv did not reduce the bail of BGN 50,000 previously set for accusations of embezzlement in particularly large amounts against the director of the theater in Razgrad, Levon Manukyan. The decision of the magistrates is final.
According to the investigators, Manukyan was responsible for the appointment of 41 people who never performed real work, but received about BGN 25,000 in additional material support. Thus, the state budget was damaged by nearly one million BGN.
According to Todorov, the whole scheme was invented by a clever person. The amount of 1 million was not requested all at once, so as not to make the department suspicious, but in several smaller transactions. When asked why Levon Manukyan was fired from the theater’s management days after the fraud was revealed, Todorov stated that the reason was technical, related to the preparation of documentation.
When asked if it was possible that people from the Ministry were the initiators, or at least involved in what was happening, Nayden Todorov replied that he did not believe that there were employees of the department among the initiators. “I would like to say that there are no people involved, but I have called the Chief Inspectorate of the Council of Ministers to conduct a full inspection of MK. Theoretically, this is not impossible”, explained the minister.
A similar scheme was established in the theater in Smolyan. “The situation is identical to the one in Razgrad, but in Smolyan there is also an outflow of funds to certain companies,” added Todorov. According to him, it is possible that the financial fraud happened in other theaters in the country.
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