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Former Deputy Minister to be taken to court in connection with guest house scandal

Former Deputy Minister of Economy Alexander Manolev
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Bulgaria's former Deputy Minister of Economy Alexander Manolev and the twenty five-year-old Ana Dimitrova will be taken to court over the scandal related to the guest house in Sandanski built with EU money. Manolev and Dimitrova have been indicted for providing false information to the Regional Payment Agency of the State Fund Agriculture, in order to receive EU funding. Today the regional prosecutor's office in Blagoevgrad submitted the indictment to the court. Five months ago pre-trial proceedings were initiated against Manolev and Dimitrova. The measure for both of them was a bail warranty. 




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