Stefan Totev, Executive Director of GP Group” has been accused for a month and is hiding in the cardiology department of Tokuda Hospital so that he will not be served with the indictment. The charge is for a railway project financed with European funds and implemented by the consortium “PLOBUR”, which, in addition to “GP Group” AD, includes three other companies associated with Sanko Peshev – a proxy of Ivan Mirinski and Delyan Peevski.
Kovesi: It’s too early to say
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has so far remained silent on the subject. Asked what is happening with this case, Kovesi’s headquarters in Luxembourg replied laconically: “It is too early to say anything, but we will communicate on the topic.”
Two weeks later, there is no communication, unlike the minor cases of theft of EU money for dairies and chicken farms, regularly called by the EPPO press service.
The Sofia office of the EPPO, headed by prosecutor Dimitar Belichev, who is reported to have worked as a legal adviser to another close associate of Peevski, Georgi Samuilov, is also silent.
The fact that Belichev wants to personally hand over the accusation to Totev is significant. The practice is for the GDNP to deal with this, but it seems that the high-ranking head of the construction company enjoys the privilege of being personally instructed by the head of the Bulgarian office of Kovesi how to behave procedurally, what to say and what not to say, so as not to unravel the ball to the corpulent bosses above him.
Fake document from Peevski’s proxy
According to BIRD, the accusation against the head of GP Group is due to a false reference from the Polish branch of the Canadian company Bombardier. It is part of the consortium “Plobur”, which won the public procurement for the modernization of the signaling system on the Plovdiv – Burgas line. It includes GP Group with 44%, Bombardier Transportation Italy with 50%, Bombardier Transportation Poland with one percent and the Bulgarian Marmet AD with 5%. Subsequently, the French “Alstom” acquired “Bombardier” and was registered in its place.
The fraud was revealed back in 2019 in an article by the investigative website Bivol. https://bivol.bg/bombardier-gpgroup-nkzhi.html
In order to prove technical expertise, Bombardier Poland presented a certificate that it had carried out activities under a railway signaling project that it had not carried out. This turned out to be decisive for winning the public procurement. But even after the absorption of huge advances, At the moment, the project of “Plobur” is boxing, as well as other large railway projects financed with European funds.
Bombardier’s representative for Bulgaria is Sanko Peshev. He is also known as the formal owner of the company that built the luxury hotel “Miragio” in Halkidiki, with a loan of BGN 120 million from BDB, received during the time of Stoyan Mavrodiev. His father, Maxim Peshev , is on the board of another company from the Plobur consortium – Marmet
An investigation by BIRD traced the connections of Sanko Peshev’s Greek company with Bulgarian companies associated with Delyan Peevski and Yordan Tsonev.
Хотел на Халкидики, сянката на Пеевски и Цонев… Кой стои зад заем от 115 милиона от ББР?
Millions of euros at the cash desk for persons with criminal records
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has never filed charges for the scandalous Kostenets-Septemvri railway project, where a connection with an associate of Boyko Borisov came out and from which millions were stolen. Last year, in August, at the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, searches were carried out and two people were arrested. From a publication of Free Europe, it is understood that two projects are of interest: the consortia “Kostenets-Septemvri 2018” DZZD and “Euro Railway Infrastructure“ DZZD.
As Mediapool wrote, the company “Trans Logistics”, which implements one project for BGN 387 million through the consortium “Kostenets-Septemvri 2018”, is managed by former guards of Boyko Borisov and is registered at the same address as the companies of Samir Francis – a former partner of Boyko Borisov from his thug years.
Samir Iskander Ibrahim – Francis is an Iraqi, a naturalized Bulgarian. An investigation by Bivol lists his partners over the years. In addition to Boyko Borisov, he has business with Zlatko Beretata and the famous Russian gangster Konstantin Tsyganov, “The performers are suspected of having made fictitious money transfers to a chain of shell companies for a short period of time, which eventually led to the withdrawal of amounts of more than 2.5 million euros. (BGN 5 million) from persons with criminal records,” the European Chief Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release. It is not clear whether the failed project of the consortium “Kellet AB” DZZD for the Iskar – Elin Pelin section has also been investigated. In Kellet, the partner is the Haskovo company AB, which, according to the Capital newspaper, is “Peevski’s new builder”. It is an open secret that all these schemes in railway projects are controlled and activated by the almighty Ivan Mirinski, the right-hand man of Delyan Peevski, sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act, who for many years was the formal owner of Vodstroy 98, later renamed VDH AD and bought by Veliko Zhelev’s Varna-based Hydrostroy AD.
Mirinski’s role in the last 10-15 years under various governments has been at a “marshalling yard” for money in the infrastructure construction sector (especially the railways) in Bulgaria.
Lead photo: Ivan Mirinski (below, left), Delyan Peevski, Laura Kovesi, Stefan Totev (far right) and a facsimile of the summons of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. Collage: BIRD.BG
Държавна компания замазва щетите от провален жп проект за 120 милиона лв.
Материалът The boss of GP Group is accused by Kovesi of a railway project with a proxy of Peevski е публикуван за пръв път на BIRD.
