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 …