site.btaVazrazhdane Reports Chiren Gas Storage Expansion Project to Prosecutors, State Agency for National Security

Vazrazhdane has filed a complaint to the Prosecution Service and the State Agency for National Security (SANS) regarding alleged criminal activities related to the Chiren underground gas storage expansion project, the party’s press service said here on Tuesday.

"The complaint consolidates data and circumstances made public by various stakeholders, as well as information from the Bulgarian Energy and Mining Forum’s report to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). It also includes details from employees of Bulgartransgaz—longstanding, highly educated, and qualified experts in the field—who fear speaking publicly on the matter due to threats of dismissal or direct disciplinary termination by the company’s management," Vazrazhdane MP Yordan Todorov said.

Todorov added that efforts to urgently reinstate Vladimir Malinov as executive director of Bulgartransgaz, allegedly in violation of the Anti-Corruption Act, could be seen as a deliberate attempt to cover up facts related to the case.

Vazrazhdane also intends to submit a separate complaint regarding large-scale financial misconduct at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (K-NPP), Todorov said, quoted by the party’s press service.

At the end of January, Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) filed a report with the EPPO concerning the appointment of former caretaker energy minister Vladimir Malinov as executive director of Bulgartransgaz, the CC-DB press service said at the time.