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Heads roll after private birthday party on day of mourning

Sat, May 30 2009 20:32 CET byRene Beekman 1433 Views 3 Comments
Heads roll after private birthday party on day of mourning

Roumen Andreev
Photo: Nadezhda Chipeva

Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev fired Deputy Interior Minister Roumen Andreev for attending a birthday party on May 29, a day of national mourning for the vicitims of a bus accident on May 28.

A two-line notice on the government website said Andreev had been released of his duties effective immediately and that the proposal for the release had come from Interior Minister Mihail Mikov.

"I think in this situation where the whole nation is in mourning, it is irrelevant from a moral point of view," Bulgarian daily Dnevnik quoted Stanishev as saying.

Andreev had, along with other top officials of the police and the Interior Ministry, football stars and a Serbian pop-folk singer, attended the 50th birthday party of Ventsislav Rangelov, a senior official with the Interior Ministry, in a restaurant in the centre of Sofia.
The birthday party was combined with a fundraiser for the children of policemen who fell in the line of duty where around 17 000 leva was said to have been raised.

Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov has ordered deputy mayor Julia Nenkova to request the resignation of Emil Tanev, general director of the Directorate Public Order and Security at Sofia municipality, for attending the same birthday party.

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Anonymous Raptor Mon, Jun 01 2009 09:51 CET
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Exactly Mat, is was for a good cause after all! Lets forget about the details.....!!

Anonymous Mat Sun, May 31 2009 20:17 CET
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If there were 50 people at the party, that's almost 350 leva per head on average. Given a civil servant's salary is not much more, I think we should applaud their generosity.

And not worry about where they get the rest of their wealth from.

Anonymous Dianne Hatton Sun, May 31 2009 16:33 CET
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I don't know what is worst, the fact that this guy was obviously awaiting for an excuse to be fired, that all the other officials, pop stars, and footballers haven't been fired, or that with such a cast of rich folk at a fundraiser they only raised 17,000lvs.

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