“How Is This Possible? Why Aren’t People Angry?” Diyana Responds

11:33, 28 Jun 22
Za Istinata

“You must care and be angry. A good journalist must be constantly angry. You can’t get used to or resign yourself to blatant wrongdoing,” Diyana Zhelyazkova says. Read more »

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 »

English, Investigations cooperative, hotel, Smolyan

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 »

English, Investigations elections, Gurkovo, Mayor

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 »

English, Investigations Bulgarian Institute for Legal Initiatives, hospital, patients

Garbage money – how municipalities in Shumen region threw BGN 402 thousand in an unrealized project for waste separation

17:32, 16 Jun 21
Diana Jeliazkova

Over BGN 402 thousand wasted - this is a brief summary of the unfortunate attempt of several municipalities in the Shumen region to build an installation for separation of household waste at the regional landfill in the Shumen neighborhood Divdyadovo. Read more »

English, Investigations Divdyadovo, garbage, Shumen

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 »

English, Investigations “GP Group”, Arena Shumen, Mayor, Municipality of Shumen

“National Association – People’s Happiness” – how the measure 60/40 was turned into a piggy saving box

9:00, 11 Mar 21
Petya Mihova

Can the Law on Access to Public Information and the so-called "Measure 60/40" be turned into a source of profit for private benefit? Unfortunately, the answer is probably yes, and the way in which this can be done is described in a story Read more »

English, Investigations “National Association - National Happiness”, Burgas, Measure 60/40, profit

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 »

English, Investigations Access to Public Information Act, Armira River, European money, Municipality of Ivaylovgrad, road

Over BGN 2 million to the garbage to mislead Europe that we care about waste

12:58, 15 Feb 21
Emiliya Dimitrova

Thousands of plastic containers for biodegradable waste have been placed in an open warehouse in Sevlievo all winter. The view illustrates the waste of millions of BGN collected from the taxes of Bulgarian and European taxpayers. Read more »

English, Investigations biodegradable waste, DRYANOVO, European funding, Sevlievo, Suhindol

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 »

English, Investigations “Ayazmoto” Park, National Institute for Immovable Cultural Heritage, Stara Zagora