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ACTS announces journalistic investigations of various media because it supports freedom of expression.
Brussels imposes severe sanctions on Bulgaria for violations in the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline in its part of the territory of origin, according to the civil association. FIGHTER, who, together with journalists from Bivol and Bulfoto, denounced irregularities.
BOEC carried out 9 actions on the “pipeline” and compressor station near the village of Rasovo, clearly showing through public videos that the entire project is subordinate and taken over by Russian companies, and there is not a single representative of the Bulgarian state at the construction site.
“Russian companies with Russian workers, Russian security and Russian teams are building a Russian project for the transmission of Russian gas! For all this, Bulgarian citizens are paying three billion lev of our money! Borisov is paying them, already that part of these billions are Peevski’s debts to the Russian mafia from the failed South Stream project, “they are angry with BOEC.
“After the start of the BOEC actions and investigations at the end of September, Borissov and the mafia were forced to force construction in order to fulfill their commitments to Putin and Erdogan, the pipeline will work at the end of 2020 and suddenly in the construction sites of “Turkey Bulgarian companies also appeared with new equipment purchased with European money under the” Competitiveness “program! ) and Nikolay Marchenko from “Bivol” revealed enough data on abuses that we provide to Brussels, “the non-governmental organization writes.
Already at the beginning of 12.2020, OLAF informed BOEC that it had ordered an inspection of public procurement during the construction of the gas pipeline.
Yesterday (12/21/2020) the EC – Directorate General “Energy” responded that the companies involved in the construction of “Turkish Stream” with equipment purchased with European funds, has started an inspection. The entire Competitiveness Program has ended with 100% sanctions imposed on the Bulgarian state, and new comprehensive inspections have been launched with sanctions against all companies mentioned in the signal.
„We do not know how the aforementioned consortium decided to execute the contract and whether they have declared subcontractors to the contracting authority. In case the contracting authority had any special requirements for the performance of the contract, these requirements should have been specified in the tender documentation and in the contract. The performance of the contract, with some exceptions, is not covered by the public procurement rules. The contracting authority must evaluate whether the contract entered into with the successful tenderer in the public procurement procedure has been fulfilled.
ABUSE OF EUROPEAN FUNDS
Regarding the misuse of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds), I would like to inform you that the European Commission has requested information from the Management Authority of the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy, which is responsible for managing the Operational Program “Innovation and Competitiveness “2014 – 2020 (OPIC). The managing authority provided information that, following audits by the Bulgarian authorities, it had detected significant irregularities in project BG16RFOP002-3.001-0252-C01. As a result, the managing authority imposed a 100% financial correction on this project and on seven (7) other projects from the same call for proposals and the same research. The managing authority has also transferred the files to the Bulgarian National Prosecutor’s Office. Furthermore, the managing authority of OPIC is currently investigating the irregularities in the grant agreement BG16RFOP002-3.001-0155-С01 with the beneficiary NOVA STROY TEAM EOOD. It is currently in the process of implementation.
As for Caro Trading Ltd., after its signal of irregularities, the Managing Authority has launched an investigation and will carry out inspections in lieu of the relevant projects.
Finally, with regard to Interprom, in 2019 the corresponding support contract for the Operational Program “Innovation and Competitiveness” was terminated and no amounts have been paid.
Sofia, Bulgaria
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