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Highway payments will not be stopped (Overview)




Minister Violeta Komitova agreed with the director of “Motorways” Stoyan Belichev at the end of the working day on Tuesday.

At the end of the working day, Minister Komitova agreed with the director of the company

Hours earlier, she wrote to the banks not to transfer money

The caretaker regional minister Violeta Komitova met at the end of the working day on Tuesday with the executive director of Avtomagistrali Stoyan Belichev and it was agreed that the payments by the company would not be stopped, and the director promised to have continuity, the regional ministry announced. .

This happened against the background of the information leaked earlier in the day that on Monday the Minister wrote and sent a letter to seven commercial banks, warning them

not to do

translations by

the accounts of

the state

company

“Motorways”, if the toll roads are signed by the current executive director Stoyan Belichev or persons authorized by him. An exception could be made only in the case of remuneration under employment contracts, reads the letter, which was sent to the banks and to the chief accountant of the state-owned company, whose principal is the minister.

In the letter, she called Stoyan Belichev a “former executive director” of the company and explained to financial institutions that this was necessary due to the replacement of Belichev and the other two members of the board of directors of Avtomagistrali.

On June 7, arch. Komitova actually fired the management of Avtomagistrali and appointed three new ones, but this has not yet been entered in the Commercial Register and her order has not entered into force in practice.

Yesterday Stoyan Belichev replied in writing to the Minister that such blocking of the company’s activities would lead to severe consequences, because in addition to the contracts for construction of the Hemus highway, which the minister disputes, Avtomagistrali also has a bunch of contracts for current repairs and maintenance. roads across the country. Delays in payments will lead to requests for penalties,

which will be

paid by

the Bulgarian

taxpayer,

Belichev wrote.

The epistolary dialogue between the two continued later on Tuesday, after the press center of the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works distributed a letter of response from the Minister to Stoyan Belichev. In it, she reminds him that inspections in the company have revealed irregularities.

The main accusation of the Minister is for huge sums paid in advance for activities on the construction of the Hemus highway and for strengthening landslides, given that no technical projects have been ready for these activities, nor have building permits been issued. The response of Avtomagistrali was that the payments were made in order to fix the prices of the materials, which became more expensive during the construction.

In the last press release of the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works for the day it is written that Minister Komitova has assured that all payments by the state will continue without problems and in time.

The Bulgarian Chamber of Builders (BCB) reacted on Tuesday that they are also in favor of creating rules, but the work cannot be stopped until they are written.

“The minister claims in a TV interview that she did not stop construction sites. But when you stop payments, you actually stop the sites. And we are for rules, but

it is not right

to stop

the economy,

while you create them, you have to do it in parallel “, the executive director of the chamber Valentin Nikolov told” 24 Chasa “.

According to him, only in road construction there are suspended sites for about BGN 600 million. Currently, the chamber has sent letters to its regional offices, and the results of the survey will show what other construction sites have been stopped.

“In my opinion, it will turn out that other programs and projects outside the road construction have stopped sites for as much money. Usually the state justifies itself by saying that it will delay payments a little. However, when the invoice has already been issued, you have to declare VAT on it by the 14th of the next month and it becomes immediately due, penalties and interest begin to accumulate on them. Our respects to the Minister, she is a good teacher and can understand the construction process well, but the economy cannot be stopped that way “, Nikolov added.

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