Eight more people charged in connection with the investigation into misuse of funds in Hemus motorway construction

Charges were pressed on October 25 against eight more people in connection with the investigation into the misuse of funds in the construction of the Hemus motorway, BNT learned from sources.

Sofia city Deputy Prosecutor, Desislava Petrova, confirmed to BNT that there are new people that have been charged. According to BNT sources, all are accused of money laundering.

Today, managers of companies who were part of the scheme through which the money was transferred, then withdrawn and taken out of the country in bags and sacks, have been summoned to the Chief Directorate for Combating Organised Crime. Two of the accused are family and two other are from the town of Lom.

They were all named as participants in the scheme by Borislav Kolev, who was the first person arrested and charged in the scheme. According to investigators, the scheme worked through companies contracted to build the motorway receiving advance payments and then transferring the money through a chain of other companies.

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Ten people on suspicion of involvement in the misuse of funds during the construction of Hemus motorway were arrested in November, 2021.