The court stopped the sale without an auction of a hotel for BGN half a million

9:50, 19 Jul 21
Zarko Marinov

The court has imposed a temporary injunction on the Regional Comprehensive Cooperative (RCC) “Orpheus” in Smolyan to sell the Hotel-Restaurant “Ezerata” (the Lakes) to the Central Cooperative Union (CCU). The deal was stopped after a complaint by the member of the Management Board of the Cooperative, d-r Dimitar Pamporov. Read more »
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Punishment action in the ghetto – how the mayor of Gurkovo took pre-election revenge on the “disobedient” Roma (video)

7:30, 1 Jul 21
Venelina Popova

Ten days before the early parliamentary elections on July 11th in Gurkovo, the mayor of the municipality Marian Tsonev (MRF) stopped the water in the Roma neighborhood of “Lozenets-North” after its residents demanded that he fulfills his pre-election promises. This happened at temperature of 40oC and under pandemic conditions! How this unprecedented repression came about […] Read more »
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Phantoms in the hospital, or how fictitious patients turn out to be a “technical error”

13:58, 24 Jun 21
Venelina Popova

Signals for fake hospitalizations in the capital’s “Lozenets” Hospital along clinical path 20.1 “Interventional treatment and related diagnostic catheterizations for cardiovascular diseases for persons over 18 years of age”, for which the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) paid BGN 3,318 until August 2020, and then BGN 3,671, became the subject of a journalistic investigation and […] Read more »
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After BGN 13 million, “Arena Shumen”, opened in 2018, is now in need of major repair

18:02, 23 Mar 21
Diana Jeliazkova

“Arena Shumen” Hall, for which the state and the municipality spent nearly BGN 13 million, has again leakages despite the repairs that began soon after its opening in 2018. The official staircase to the hall is already soaked with rain and snow that fell in recent days, and the plaster is moldy and crumbling in […] Read more »
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A BGN 4.5 million road in Ivaylovgrad municipality “drowned” in Armira river (video)

16:36, 26 Feb 21
Ivan Atanasov

In addition to highways and landslides, the government spends European money on roads in remote areas of the country. Such an example is the border municipality of Ivaylovgrad, where a project “Reconstruction and rehabilitation of municipal roads on the territory of the Municipality of Ivaylovgrad” worth almost BGN 4.5 million (VAT exluded) has been implemented. Read more »
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How the local authority in Stara Zagora misled the citizens and violated the laws

13:44, 18 Jan 21
Venelina Popova

If an ordinary citizen violates the law and this is certified by the relevant responsible institution, he/she shall bear the sanction provided for this. But when the state or the institutions of central and local authorities allow themselves to break or circumvent the law, this remains without consequences. Read more »
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How will the natural environment in Stara Planina be preserved with millions for a road?

9:00, 9 Dec 20
Emiliya Dimitrova

Corrections in the Management Plan of the “Central Balkan” National Park and removal from there of the roads with free access were requested by a petition from the Bulgarian Mountaineering Union (BMU) and the “Nasam-Natam” Tourist Association (@TDNasamNatam). The reason – the places designated for hiking in the park are plowed by cars that move freely […] Read more »
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