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Criminals can obtain refinancing only from other criminals, who in turn will steal it from taxpayers.<\/p>\n
Therefore, all those who voted on Thursday to update the budget, in which they quietly added 900 million levs for the “bad apple” FIB, are part of an organized crime group, working for the interests of its majority shareholder Tseko Minev, known as a destroyer of Bulgarian forests. This was pure State aid from the pockets of Bulgarian taxpayers for the next runaway to Belgrade, Vienna or Moscow and for his associates.<\/p>\n
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