An interesting business network intertwining family and party connections has been woven in Bulgaria’s historical town of Kotel. Relatives of Mayor Kosta Karanashev and municipal officials of the ruling party…

Dimitar Karanashev, father-in-law, and Zoya Karanasheva, sister-in-law, of Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture Dessislava Taneva, have absorbed through companies and as individuals nearly BGN 1 million in agricultural subsidies in 2018…

https://youtu.be/EhpvUR4K8FE “I suggest that you stick to saying that there is no such fraud and everything is fine because otherwise, they will stop this (funding) for us. In the end,…

After more than a decade of membership in the European Union (EU), European projects in Bulgaria turned into financial mechanisms for the chosen few. Ordinary humans are not allowed in…

The Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Food (MAF) has checked 288 guesthouses under monitoring and another seven that are not, according to Minister Desislava Taneva, which reported the results of…

The new data on the Rural Development Program (RDP), released and published by the Bulgarian State Fund Agriculture (SFA), abounds with duplicates, omissions and hidden projects for nearly BGN 200…

Payments under the European program for the promotion of Bulgarian agricultural products abroad are now completely suspended after an investigation by the European Anti-Fraud Office OLAF. Brussels has found documents…

Believe it or not, there is such a committee in Bulgaria’s State Fund Agriculture (SFA) – Expert Committee to Ensure Transparency (ECTET). It turns out, however, that everything related to…

Almost half of the guesthouses built with European money under the Rural Development Program (RDP) are missing from official data of the State Fund Agriculture (SFA). They are concentrated primarily…