Bulgaria GERB Aims at Leading Varna Municipal Council

Domestic | April 19, 2010, Monday // 15:06|  views

The GERB regional leader and Member of the Parliament, Pavel Dimitrov, announced his party will present their own nomination for Chair of Varna's Municipal Council, who is to replace the busted Socialist, Borislav Gutsanov. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's ruling GERB will nominate their party member and GERB councilman, Nikolay Apostolov, for Chair of Varna's Municipal Council.

Apostolov is to replace socialist Borislav Gutsanov, who was arrested in the Black Sea city before the Easter holiday in a special police operation codenamed “Jellyfish”.

Gutsanov, a member of the Executive Board of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, was detained along with the Director of the Varna municipality ‘Auto Transport’ department, Pencho Penchev and Yoana Krasteva, the department’s Chief Accountant. Penchev and Krasteva were left under house arrest.

The detainees have allegedly abused taxpayers’ money, namely for deals to purchase second-hand buses which were later sold to Varna's public transportation at much higher prices.

The regional leader of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party and Member of the Parliament, Pavel Dimitrov, announced negotiations about Apostolov's nomination are being held for several days now, adding he is certain of the support of other political formations.

Dimitrov says Gutsanov must be replaced immediately because in addition to being charged with crime, he had been a poor manager.

On April 13, the Varna Appellate Court decided to leave Gutsanov behind bars, just days after he was listed in the city's “St. Anna” hospital with what is said to be a serious case of pneumonia.

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Tags: Varna, Jellyfish operation, Borislav Gutsanov, Dunkata, Nikolay Apostolov, Pavel Dimitrov, GERB

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