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Former public official gets four-year sentence for taking bribe

Thu, May 21 2009 13:01 CET

byPetar Kostadinov

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Former public official gets four-year sentence for taking bribe

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The Sofia Appellative Court reduced by one year the sentence against one of  two former employees of the former National Road Infrastructure Fund (NRIF) who were found guilty of taking a bribe of 25 000 leva.

Ivan Vladimirov's sentence was reduced from five to four years while the other former NRIF official, Lyubomir Lilov, whom prosecutors claimed was the mastermind behind the corrupt scheme, received a suspended sentence.

Vladimirov's defence claimed that he had nothing to do with the case and that he had been set up by Lilov, private national bTV channel said. The latter confessed to asking for a 25 000 bribe, the first of two payments totalling 50 000 that the pair asked from architect Georgi Yanev, who tipped off the police.

Both men, who were in charge of allocating funds under the Ispa pre-accession aid programme of the European Union at the Fund, were arrested in January 2008 after they were caught red-handed receiving the money.

Sofia City Court held its first hearing of the case on July 8 2008, with Vladimirov pleading not guilty to all charges.

Lilov pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting a bribe, but denied the accusation that he intended to use the money to pay a bribe to a colleague to influence the decision to re-zone a land plot.

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