Any Bulgarian officials who did not return bonuses face endangered list
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov is to present to the Cabinet on March 7 a list of any top officials who failed to meet the deadline for returning their bonuses or giving the money to children’s charities.
Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has said that those who failed to comply with the instruction to forfeit their bonuses will face dismissal.
This has been the latest development in the drama that followed revelations that senior state officials took bonuses, in some cases running into several thousand leva.
Ministers, deputy ministers, chiefs of political cabinets, district governors and their deputies had until March 2 to report to Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov that they were repaying their bonuses or handing them over to charity.
A special account was opened at central Bulgarian National Bank for the repayment of bonuses.
When the list is presented to the Cabinet, it will become clear how much money has been distributed as bonuses to top officials in the past two years, Bulgarian National Television said on March 5.
Only some of the names of those who have returned their bonuses have emerged in public so far. They include Regional Development and Public Works Minister Liliana Pavlova and the regional governors of Pernik, Veliko Turnovo, Vidin and Kurdjali. Transport Minister Ivailo Moskovski was quoted in Bulgarian-language media reports on March 4 as having said bonuses that had been paid in his ministry had been returned.
Source: http://sofiaecho.com
(05.03.2012)