The National Police Directorate and the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime are submitting further information to the prosecutor's office today regarding a crime committed under Art. 313 of the Penal Code. This was announced by the Acting Secretary General of the MoI, Chief Commissioner Lyubomir Nikolov, during a briefing at the Council of Ministers dedicated to institutional actions taken against corruption.

One of the key cases uncovered in the process involves a Member of Parliament and political party leader whose declarations are under investigation. According to the Acting Secretary General of the MoI, the person with immunity carried out 36 flights in an aircraft valued at 36 million leva, purchased in 2020 by one of the companies participating in public procurement. The aircraft was transferred to a Maltese company, for which information has also been requested from Maltese authorities. As a result of the investigation, 36 invoices totaling 5 million leva were identified, paid by the company that owns the aircraft. „We conducted a check of the declarations of the individual – a Member of Parliament and political party leader“, Nikolov emphasized, adding that these expenses were not declared as either transport costs or as gifts for carrying out the flights in question.

In just one year, these companies have misappropriated state resources amounting to over 400 million euros. Audits conducted within the MoI and the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation (MIDT) revealed that four companies hold 99.5% of all contracts related to the construction and installation of guardrails. Although they ostensibly create a circle of competitors, these firms are actually linked through the same owners or through owners in family relationships.

Currently, the MoI is working on over 900 reports of corruption crimes, 500 of which are directly related to violations of the Public Procurement Act.

The uncovered schemes involving the misappropriation of vast state funds directly affect the distribution of public resources and budgetary capacities across the entire country, including the regions.

These measures follow the intentions stated by Prime Minister Rumen Radev, according to which compromised public procurements and internal transfers will be audited, and checks will be conducted on proxy persons as part of the comprehensive fight against corruption.