Bulgaria Road Controversy Goes to Court Again

The former head of the state-owned National Road Infrastructure Fund Vesselin Georgiev. Photo by BGNES

The former head of the state-owned National Road Infrastructure Fund, who is being tried for corruption, will be expected to turn up at Sofia City Court on Thursday.

Vesselin Georgiev is charged with awarding contracts worth tens of millions of levs to companies run by two of his brothers.

The trial has been repeatedly postponed after either the defendant or witnesses failed to appear at the court room.

The controversy that led to the freezing of the EUR 723 M earmarked to improve Bulgaria's dilapidated roads broke out following an investigation by the newspaper Kapital.

Georgiev resigned from his post under pressure from the media.

 

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