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BSP refers caretaker social minister to the prosecutor's office

Georgi Gyokov and the parliamentary group of BSP gave an official press briefing in the Parliament building
Photo: BGNES

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) has filed a report with the prosecutor's office against caretaker social minister Lazar Lazarov due to suspicions of misuse of European funds. According to the socialists, money was illegally spent under the Recovery and Resilience Plan. 

The MP from the left-wing party, Georgi Gyokov, explained that the signal refers to the creation of regional centers to support the modernization of enterprises for social economy and the purchase of properties. 

"There is no logic and no need for the state to spend a huge amount of funds not to support the social economy, but to buy properties given that its properties are empty in various cities," he said, recalling that the Project for the Development of Social Economy amounts to nearly BGN 27 million (EUR 13.8 million).

Later, at an extraordinary briefing, Minister Lazar Lazarov commented: "The BSP's signal refers to a project created and approved by the previous government, i.e. when the Minister of Social Policy was Georgi Gyokov."



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