Businessmen won the Council of Ministers bid for public projects

"Public aid fund" is one of the 15 not-for-profit organisations (NGOs), who won a project of the Council of Ministers (CM) for 65,311 BGN for developing a considerable for the public projects. For this aim, the CM decided to provide 1 million BGN.

Three out of the five participants in the mentioned above fund are businessmen, shows the investigation of Sega daily. Nasko Nastev is in the gambling business, Aliosha Sinabov possesses a company for wholesale with liquors, tobacco and food, and Stoyan Dinev manages a company for businessconsulting.

The fund will be implementing a project called: "Sport educates without limits and differences" and aims at organising competitions in the turkish town Chorlu and in Kardjali, as well as a green school in Komotini - Greece. Nastev’s companies "Anast" and "Anast-Nasko Nastev" are all registered in Kardjali.

Sinabov on another hand is owner of a company called "Alcommers" and he is also a shareholder, together with three Turkish citizens, of another commercial enterprise called "Parterns Bulgaria".

The "Public aid fund" is registered on 27 of February 2006, just before the start of recieving the bidding offers. In March, with a Prime Minister’s order is created an interdepartament commission, whose goal is to make an estimation of the candidates, reported from CM. The same commission, whose members are not announced, has created a protocol with their own suggestions about the winners.

The deicsion about the 15 NGOs and the amounts of money recieved per project, was provided by the Minister of Justice, Mr. Georgi Petkanov, but the criteria for the choice of these particular NGOs was not announced. According to art.8 of the Law for the State Budget, which is the base for distributing the amounts, the estimations for social considable projects are taken in account by the number of benficiaries, who are expected to recieve benefits from the fulfilment of the project, with estimation of the costs for each of them.

As Sega daily wrote before, among the approved projets, there is the Foundations of the daughter of the yellow MP Hristina Hristova and an association, in which participated the deputy municipaly chief of Smolian, Mitko Petagov.

Some of the funded NGOs are registered by companies, established a verfication of the newspaper. For example, the "Land - source of income" Foundation, which is recieving 48,462 BGN, is owned by a company called "Land and incomes". The company buys and sells their own real estate property. The project they have provided is called: "Education for agricultural producers from regions with mixed communities for implementation of new technologies for the future".

One of the chiefs of the NGO, Ivan Penov, explained that there will be held a training for small agricultural producers in agricultural high schools. What Penov could not explain though was what will be the 15,600 BGN, announced as "expense for capacity development of the project partners" spent for, neither the 7,644 BGN stated for "management" of the project. Separately are calculated another 5,660 BGN for "administrative costs" and 5,370 BGN for payment for a public advisory for support of the agricultural production.

The original text (in Bulgarian): Sega daily

Author: Nadelina Aneva