Since the beginning of summer, different regions of Bulgaria were swept away by floods after heavy downpours. Many experts backed the idea that indiscriminate and illegal felling in the country has strongly accentuated the effect of the water element.<\/p>\n
In a series of publications, BIVOL will showcase two former employees of the specialized unit “Forest Guard” at the Executive State Forestry Agency. Usain Shakirov and Georgi Donchev have been fighting for years against illegal felling, the forest mafia and corruption in the system of State forest farms. Before BIVOL, the men talked openly about the schemes to drain State Forestry and the pressure that was exerted on them when they caught \u201cred-handed\u201d people close to those in power. The story took place in the village of Rozino in 2009.<\/p>\n
Listen HERE (in Bulgarian) to some of their genuine confessions of corruption in the forest system, of timber mafia and the need for lustration (limiting the participation of former communist officials and especially informants of the communist secret police in the civil service – editor\u2019s note) \u2013 stories about the real culprits of the punishment that befell on Bulgaria.<\/p>\n