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Heating utility Toplofikatsiya Sofia on debt collection drive

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Heating utility Toplofikatsiya Sofia on debt collection drive

Photo: Julia Lazarova

Toplofikatsiya Sofia, the heating utility company in Bulgaria's capital city, said on January 10 2011 that it would speed up collection of arrear debts owed to it by its customers.

Using a variety of legal measures, the company improved debt collection in December, Toplofikatsiya Sofia said in a statement.

By January 4, 47 per cent of debtors had paid up, it said.

In 2010, Toplofikatsiya Sofia lodged more than 8000 court actions, resulting in the payment of about 14 million leva in debts.

In total, the company has lodged about 50 000 court actions, seekign to collect a total of 120 million leva.

In 2010, the company signed about 2300 debt settlement agreements covering a total of about six million leva.

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