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Two former cabinet ministers charged over Belene NPP project

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Two former ministers of energy – Rumen Ovcharov and Petar Dimitrov – have been charged over the project for the construction of a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria at Belene, BNR’s Horizont channel learnt from the Specialized Criminal Court. 

Two former executive directors of the National Electricity Company – Mardik Papazyan and Lyubomir Velkov - have also been charged. The principal charges are of mismanagement running to hundreds of millions of euro.

The name of former Energy Minister Delyan Dobrev, indicted on the same charges in 2016, is now missing from the indictment of the prosecutor’s office which is the result of an inquiry spanning almost 5 years.



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