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Member of Road Infrastructure Agency Management Board resigns over prosecution charges

Дончо Атанасов
Photo: BGNES

Doncho Atanasov has resigned from his position as a member of the Management Board of the Road Infrastructure Agency. Atanassov has been charged over a crash of a bus near Svoge, when 20 people died. Former head of the Agency, Svetoslav Glosov, has also been accused. The two have been charged with performing work in order to benefit a private company that had to repair the road and to remove any defects found at its own expense.




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