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Bulgarian prosecutors investigating 3000 municipal property deals

Mon, Sep 27 2010 10:27 CET

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Bulgarian prosecutors investigating 3000 municipal property deals

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Bulgarian prosecutors are investigating more than 3000 municipal property transactions in Sofia signed between 2006 and 2008 to see if any were approved on the basis of fake signatures of Boiko Borissov, who at the time was mayor of Sofia.

Anton Stefanov of the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office, who is overseeing the investigation, told this to mass-circulation daily Trud.

In February, Dnevnik said that prosecutors had established that more than 100 municipal properties had been acquired illegally through the use of fake signatures, false documents and seals.

The investigation began in November 2008 after the arrest of Petar Drashkov, brother of the deputy head of the State Agency for National Security, Ivan Drashkov.

Petar Drashkov was arrested after transferring municipal land in Strelbishte neighbourhood to his company Sida-S, by faking Borissov's signature.

Stefanov said that five of the municipal properties checked so far had been stolen using fake signatures of Borissov, who since July 2009 has been Bulgaria's Prime Minister.

Source: Dnevnik.bg

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Anonymous Cosmos Mon, Sep 27 2010 15:52 CET
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Well done guys keep up this good work.

Anonymous pewi Mon, Sep 27 2010 14:19 CET
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I would like to know how long they think they will need to do a job that big and dangerous?


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