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– Stoyan Belichev
Stoyan Belichev, the former executive director of the state-owned Avtomagistrali company, which received billions in government construction contracts and distributed hundreds of millions of them as advance payments to companies selected without a tender, is no longer in Bulgaria. This was announced today by the director of the interior Boyko Rashkov.
“I am currently on a family vacation, I am returning on Saturday, I have not escaped from Bulgaria,” he commented. 24 hours ago Belichev. He clarified that a few days ago he was called by the police and told that he was on vacation, and when he returned he would answer all questions. Belichev says he is not hiding and has nothing to worry about.
Belichev and the entire management of Avtomagistrali were replaced at the beginning of the summer, after it became clear that the state-owned company has paid over BGN 180 million in advance to external companies for landslide and landslide safety projects, and six months before the deadline almost none of the assigned activities have been completed. Additional an audit of the Court of Auditors foundthat the state-owned company has received orders for over BGN 4 billion in violation of the requirements of the law.
Subsequently, it turned out that “Motorways” has paid so much money under the contractsas much as the performers wanted. According to Boyko Rashkov, Stoyan Belichev left Bulgaria after the latest revelations of the police for draining funds under the contracts for construction of Lot 5 on the Hemus highway.
According to initial data from BGN 84 million granted in advance by Avtomagistrali AD to Vodno Stroitelstvo – Blagoevgrad AD BGN 60 million have been withdrawn and exported from banks in bags and sacks with a scheme involving hollow companies. It was also understoodthat hundreds of millions have been transferred in advance for the rental of equipment and delivery of materials, including lots on the highway, for which it is not even known on which route they will be made.
Today, Rashkov once again pointed out that GERB is buying votes with the money from the “asphalt saga in Bulgaria”. I will not stop calling “Hemus” “The Theft of the Century” because of the perverse application of the “inhouse” procedure, said the Interior Minister. They are for BGN 10 million, as BGN 5 million have already been given in advance to a Burgas company.
Regarding the contract for landscaping on the route of “Hemus”, Belichev says that there is a schedule for the construction of the highway and it indicates when the preparation for landscaping begins. “It is ordered to grow tens of thousands of trees and other vegetation earlier so that it can be ready for planting when the work on the route is completed,” he explained.
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