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Millions Drained in Bulgaria Procurement Scandal
Sofia | 26 November 2009 |
Mladenov was speaking in an interview for Nova TV on public procurement legislation in the Defense Ministry on Thursday, Novinite reports.
He said his administration in the Defense Ministry has been examining the Public Procurement Act for the past two weeks, and has discovered a legal loophole that allows for companiesto be chosen without fulfilling the correct competition procedures.
Thus, a number of tenders for the delivery of items from bullet-proof vests to computers were won by companies picked directly by the former Ministry officials, said Mladenov.
According to Mladenov, one of the big problems at the Defense Ministry is the fact that certain officials work on certain public procurement orders, then retire, and go to work for the company which had been picked to carry out the respective order.
The Prosecutor’s Office has raised two charges over violations against former Defense Minister Nikolay Tsonev but Mladenov said he expected a third charge to be raised as well since he sent three volumes with evidence about abuses of the previous administration to the prosecutors.
