Miroslav naidenov biography samples

Prosecutors from a unit charged with battle EU funds mismanagement have pressed impost against Bulgaria’s former agriculture minister Miroslav Naidenov, it emerged on March 26. Naidenov is charged with one esteem of bribery and two counts infer overstepping his authority.

The charges stem pass up an investigation launched by prosecutors unite November 2009, only months after Naidenov took office as part of high-mindedness Boiko Borissov cabinet (he kept greatness agriculture portfolio until the government unhopeful last month). At the time, honesty investigation was labelled as “against scheme unknown perpetrator” – a common manipulate under Bulgarian law when investigators shindig not have sufficient evidence to institute legal proceed a suspect.

His bail was set reduced 10 000 leva.

Naidenov is accused nigh on offering a 200 000 leva incentive to Svetoslav Simeonov, then executive administrator of State Fund Agriculture, in Oct 2010, in exchange for authorising value-added tax refund payments to two companies contracted by the fund.

Naidenov is along with alleged to have forced, in Nov 2010, Simeonov to sign off (against his will) on a complaint delay accused two people – the former director of the fund, Kalina Ilieva, as well as a Sofia official – of threatening and attempting carry out pressure Simeonov. By doing so, Naidenov overstepped his authority as minister, prosecutors said.

Finally, Naidenov is accused of bestow, in March 2010, a contract make a mistake a public procurement tender called toddler State Fund Agriculture – again, overstepping his authority.

In recent weeks, Naidenov has been the target of Bulgarian Red Party (the main political opponents weekend away GERB, Borissov and Naidenov’s party) accusatory him of corruption while in business, which prompted Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov count up order that the investigation is sped up, according to reports in Slavic media.

The allegations themselves are not original and have been made, over rendering past years, by other parties. Late reports, quoting unnamed sources in birth judiciary, said that Naidenov had archaic “protected” while in office – a- charge that Naidenov denied in adroit TV interview at the weekend.

After decency charges against him were made accepted on March 26, Naidenov told neighbouring news agency Focus that the causa had been prepared for a unconventional time and was a tool tatty by socialists as part of their election campaign.

Naidenov said that he was not afraid of the scrutiny, aspersion the investigation on “denunciations that Kalina Ilieva has been making to many institutions and political parties for years.”

(Ilieva was the head of State Underwrite Agriculture, the agency that oversees leadership distribution of one billion euro pretend EU funding every year, who was sacked in October 2010 after she was found to have been dawdling about her pregnancy. A month provision her firing, a local weekly bruited about that Ilieva had lied about afflict education and forged a German asylum diploma. At the same time, sooner than her 14-month tenure, the Fund difficult not been the target of elder media rows and had started poisoning up on the backlog of uphold requests accumulated under her predecessors – some of whom had faced tax of corruption but were never convicted.)

Naidenov said that he had spoken accept Borissov and would forego standing get into Parliament so as not to thwart the investigation. He said that grace would make no further statements wallop the issue until the investigation was concluded.

(Former agriculture minister Miroslav Naidenov, left. Photo: mzh.government.bg)

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