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Believe it or not, there is such a committee in Bulgaria\u2019s State Fund Agriculture<\/a> (SFA) – Expert Committee to Ensure Transparency (ECTET). It turns out, however, that everything related to its decisions is classified as “internal business information”.\u00a0 This emerges from the refusal by the SFA to fulfill a request by Bivol under the Access to Public Information Act (APIA) to clarify why the Fund has paid what has paid 281,984 Bulgarian levs for a guesthouse of the mother-in-law of its employee, Yanaki Chervenyakov.<\/p>\n

Chervenyakov was dramatically sacked by the SFA last year, after an investigation<\/a> by Bivol.<\/p>\n

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The guest house is owned by the company \u201cNova Smart\u201c and has been built on a picturesque site in the village of Lilyanovo, which is the villa zone of the town of Sandanski, on the road to the \u201cPopina Luka\u201d resort. “Nova Smart” is 100% owned by Tsetsa Krasteva, who is the mother-in-law of Yanaki Chervenyakov. The guesthouse, however, has never housed guests, an on location check by Bivol established. There is only one functioning guesthouse in the village and all the locals shrugged when we insistently asked where the second one was.<\/p>\n

We found the house by chance, noticing from the road the blue European flag on the mandatory plate for construction works financed with EU funds. As the photos show, the impressive edifice is locked. There is no phone number that potential guests can call to obtain information about housing conditions, but the garden looks carefully manicured.<\/p>\n

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“They were rolling out the red carpet for him…”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once we identified the house, local people immediately remembered its owner. “In Sandanski, they had been rolling out the red carpet for him when he was coming from Sofia”, one person told us, asking for anonymity. It turns out that Chervenyakov is well-known in the area and had warm relations with the Mayor of Sandanski.<\/p>\n

The senior SFA employee, Yanaki Chervenyakov, is believed to have been the right hand of its Executive Director, Rumen Porozhanov. He was investigated by Bivol over his flashy lifestyle on the backdrop of a relatively modest public administration income. He was speedily fired last year and the SFA was even raided by the State Agency for National Security (DANS). More than a year later, however, the prosecution is still bouncing the ball and the only investigations into the irregularities have been conducted by the media \u2013 from “guesthouses” to scams to manipulate public procurement and non-functional, yet paid for, projects for giant stadiums in rural areas and poultry farms. Meanwhile, Chervenyakov has filed a lawsuit against his dismissal which is still dragging on.<\/p>\n

Has Chervenyakov been member of the committee that has granted money to his mother-in-law?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For several months now, Bivol is trying to clarify how the funding for this project had been granted, as this is one of the many guesthouses obviously built for personal use<\/strong> and not with the goal to promote tourism and create livelihood in rural areas. A previous explanation has made it clear that a very small percentage of the guesthouses, over 770 in total, have been inspected. This particular house in Lilyanovo has never been subject to a check and risk analysis and will never be<\/strong>, as the five-year monitoring deadline has expired, the SFA clarified previously.<\/p>\n

Despite Porozhanov\u2019s repeated denials that Chervenyakov has been his right hand, the SFA Executive Director refused again to assist us in investigating the circumstances under which the contract with “Nova Smart” to finance the house of Chervenyakov\u2019s mother-in-law with 281,984 levs had been signed.<\/p>\n

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According to regulations (Art. 28, para. 5, item 2 of Decree \u2116 29 from August 11, 2008), before SFA granting a contract for funding, each project must be approved by the ECTET and an employee, who is a connected party with the bidder (including relatives and in-laws), cannot participate in the work of the Committee under supplementary provisions in the Prevention and Detection of Conflict of Interest Act<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Therefore, in its inquiry under APIA, Bivol asked to obtain a copy of the minutes of the meeting of the ECTET, which approved the project of the mother-in-law. This was denied on grounds of classified internal business information.<\/p>\n

The SFA argument is legally void because the required information was created more than two years ago, and according to APIA (Art. 13 para.3), the limitation may not apply after a period of two years from the creation of such information. It is clear that Porozhanov\u2019s refusal will not stand on appeal in the Administrative Court, but the mere fact that it has been ordained raises many questions about the SFA compliance with the requirements of European regulations.<\/p>\n

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This means receiving some millions for a European project, calculating them three times higher than the real coast, allocating them and spending the money, including for kickbacks, and then be asked to return half\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "DFZ"","block_context":{"text":"DFZ","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/b-files-en\/dfz-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/yanaki-audi.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/yanaki-audi.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/yanaki-audi.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/yanaki-audi.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/yanaki-audi.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/yanaki-audi.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":48993,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgarian-state-fund-agriculture-provides-cover-up-for-guesthouse-violators.html","url_meta":{"origin":33089,"position":2},"title":"Bulgarian State Fund Agriculture Provides Cover-up for \u2018Guesthouse\u2019 Violators","author":"Atanas Tchobanov","date":"11 November 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Bulgarian State Fund Agriculture (SFA) has found violations in the scandalous guesthouses program worth nearly BGN 38 million, but it refuses to say which specific projects are involved and for what amounts. It only announces that 288 projects have been reviewed, some of which have been subject to sanctions\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Comments"","block_context":{"text":"Comments","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/comments-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5kushti.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5kushti.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5kushti.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5kushti.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5kushti.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":47537,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/setback-for-bulgarian-agri-ministers-attempt-at-transparency.html","url_meta":{"origin":33089,"position":3},"title":"Setback for Bulgarian Agri Minister\u2019s Attempt at Transparency","author":"Atanas Tchobanov","date":"8 June 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"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 million, according to an analysis by Bivol. Thus, in reality, the efforts for transparency, supported by Agriculture Minister Dessislava Taneva,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "DFZ"","block_context":{"text":"DFZ","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/b-files-en\/dfz-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/taneva-jivkov.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/taneva-jivkov.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/taneva-jivkov.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/taneva-jivkov.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/taneva-jivkov.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/taneva-jivkov.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":30351,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgarian-state-fund-agriculture-boss-says-he-is-attacked-for-imposing-reference-rates-but-they-were-imposed-by-his-predecessor.html","url_meta":{"origin":33089,"position":4},"title":"Bulgarian State Fund Agriculture Boss Says He Is \u201cAttacked\u201d for Imposing Reference Rates, but they Were Imposed by His Predecessor","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"10 April 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In a series of public appearances the Chief of State Fund Agriculture (SFA), Rumen Porozhanov, imagined an attack against himself by publications in Bivol and other media and the activities of the National Security Agency for raiding the Fund and seizing documents. According to him, his troubles were due to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Investigations"","block_context":{"text":"Investigations","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/category\/investigations-en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/porozhanov.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/porozhanov.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/porozhanov.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31092,"url":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/state-fund-agriculture-is-hiding-guesthouses-for-over-114-million-levs.html","url_meta":{"origin":33089,"position":5},"title":"State Fund Agriculture Is Hiding Guesthouses for over 114 Million Levs","author":"\u0415\u043a\u0438\u043f \u043d\u0430 \u0411\u0438\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044a","date":"14 June 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"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). 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