A number of suspicions about the work of the National Assembly's former administration have arisen following a check performed by the new administration who took the oath on July 14 2009 following the July 5 2009 elections.

The results, presented by Speaker of Parliament Tsetska Tsacheva, from the ruling GERB party, on August 11 2009, revealed serious doubts about the transparency of Parliament's previous administration, led by former speaker Georgi Pirinksi, from the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

One such case involved the purchase of two elevators for Parliament's administration premises on Alexander Batenberg square. According to the investigation, such elevators cost about 90 000 leva in total, while Parliament has paid close to 300 000 leva.

Another case that will be investigated by prosecutors is the calculation by Pirinski's administration that Parliament would need to pay 800 000 leva for repair works on apartments allocated to MPs who come from outside Sofia.

The doubts in this case came from the fact that there was a special tender organised to pick the company that would perform the repair works. According to the law, when a tender qualifies as a special one, the public is spared the details of how it is organised. This is done in cases when matters such as national security are involved, for example, or weapons production, which is not the case with repairs of apartments.

Hence there were doubts that Parliament's previous administration had opted for this route in order to pick the winning company in advance.

Tsacheva said that she had canceled the tender procedures as of August 10 2009 which means the 117 MPs who come from outside Sofia will have to renovate their apartments with their own funds.

It was also unclear how the Rodina hotel in Sofia was picked to accommodate MPs who were still waiting to get their apartments. There had not been a public tender for it and Parliament has paid the hotel 6000 leva a night.

Another interesting revelation was that in the last days of the previous Parliament, Pirinski had extended the contracts of about 90 of Parliament's experts by August 25 2009. This means that if the new majority wants to dismiss them, these experts will be eligible for financial compensation which, in some cases, could reach several thousand leva.

There were also 585 people working in Parliament's administration who, according to records, have not taken their annual leave for the past four years, amounting to 38 000 days, although they have been on vacation every time Parliament stopped work for the summer.

Discrepancies were also revealed in the way Parliament's vehicles had been exploited. The probe showed that some drivers had reported more than 600 extra hours of work a year.

One of the vehicles had passed 338 000 kilometres a year, according to the records. The person in charge of the vehicles, Petar Enev,  has already been dismissed after the investigation revealed that he had used his office to keep 60 000 euro of his personal money.