{"id":28256,"date":"2021-12-01T15:27:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/?p=28256"},"modified":"2023-04-07T00:03:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T22:03:19","slug":"anticorruption-commission-is-investigating-varna-mayor-for-the-electric-buses-in-varna-the-contract-was-won-by-an-israeli-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/en\/anticorruption-commission-is-investigating-varna-mayor-for-the-electric-buses-in-varna-the-contract-was-won-by-an-israeli-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticorruption commission is investigating Varna mayor for the electric buses in Varna. The contract was won by an Israeli company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The consortium &#8220;Eco Transport Varna&#8221; was selected with <strong>a fixed order<\/strong> for the delivery of 60 electric buses to Varna. In a statement of KPKONPI today it is said that there is evidence of corruption of the tender, and the file has been sent to the prosecutor&#8217;s office. According to a BRRD source, the suspicions fall specifically on the mayor of Varna, <strong>Ivan Portnih<\/strong>. A check by the BSRD showed that the companies behind this consortium are Israel&#8217;s China Motors Ltd. and the Bulgarian &#8220;Eco Brand&#8221;, behind which stands a candidate MP of IMRO.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purchase of buses and charging stations is with European money under OPE <\/span> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/2020.eufunds.bg\/bg\/0\/0\/Project\/Participants?contractId=lJStWzOInG0%3D&amp;isHistoric=False\">project Ecologically clean transport for Varna<\/a><b>. <\/b> The price is <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">85 378 649.00 BGN, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">85.00% being financed by the EU. <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The public procurement register does not open the contract under its unique number <\/span><b>01389-2020-0004<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but a trace of it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aop.bg\/ng\/form.php?class=F14_2014&amp;id=996389&amp;mode=view\">remains<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The contractor Consortium &#8220;Eco Transport Varna&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is missing <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the register of Bulstat, but information about it is found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.bg\/reg\/Dossier.aspx?DossID=300057301\">a file<\/a> of the Commission for Protection of Competition. According to her, he is registered in  <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">G. Sofia, Vitosha district, ul. 60 Rhodope Spring, ap. Office 1B.  <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The agreement for the establishment of the consortium was signed on 14.08.2020 between Eco Brand EOOD, with UIC 204186604 and China Motors Ltd. with reg. \u2116 514292697. On the file the Consortium is represented by Atty. Panteley Semerdzhiev. (ACT-1025-28.10.2021 of the CPC page 18)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The only company named China Motors Ltd. with reg. No 514292697<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHINA MOTORS LTD <a href=\"https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/companies\/il\/514292697\">registered in Israel<\/a>. <\/span> The <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BRRD sent questions to the company through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinamotors.co.il\/about\/\">website<\/a> but by the end of the article no response had been received. The<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">manufacturer of the buses is the Chinese company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zhongtongbuses.com\/\">Zhongtong Bus Holding Co<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eco Brand Ltd<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">., with UIC <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/en\/?p=22329&#038;v=view&#038;guid=204186604\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">204186604<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from 27.12.2019, is the sole property of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/en\/?p=22329&#038;v=view&#038;guid=68e45341eaf0190c971454f9019a95c0d2c1b876f19d88def4884c8770a6e738\"><br \/>\n  <b>Ina Marinova Radoslavova<\/b><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the manager is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bird.bg\/en\/?p=22329&#038;v=view&#038;guid=5ae959d82ac191ef0513b6bc8c72ddfb1d7de1cc761e83ba1d245648bc8d471d\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgi Ivanov Alexandrov.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ina Marinova<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Radoslavova was <\/span>VMRO&#8217;s MP candidate for the April 2021 elections.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to her presentation in an advertory of the newspaper &#8220;24 hours&#8221;, &#8220;Ina Radoslavova graduated from the New Bulgarian University, &#8220;Business Administration&#8221;. He runs an international healthcare business, develops and manages eco-friendly and organic products.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ivan Portnih visited Israel in 2018, after which information appeared in the media about the indecent behavior of the mayor of Varna in the town of Varna. Haifa. Portnih denied that there was such a case. Asked about this by Sasho Dikov, then-Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said he did not know what had happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning! This is an automatic translation from Bulgarian. The translation has not been checked by the editor desk and may be inaccurate or ambiguous. 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