{"id":28946,"date":"2022-11-11T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/?p=28946"},"modified":"2024-12-07T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:37:44","slug":"doncheva-kzg-dolna-banya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/en\/doncheva-kzg-dolna-banya\/","title":{"rendered":"Poolgate: The Head of the Court of Appeal – Sofia with a pool and a guest house financed by EU funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The President of the Sofia Court of Appeal<\/span>, Daniela Doncheva<\/b>, while she was an appellate judge and subsequently Deputy President (2009-20016) in the same court, acquired <\/span> a guest house with an outdoor pool<\/b>, financed by the SFA with <\/span>BGN 236,219. <\/b>from the European funds. <\/span>The guest house is registered to a company owned by the mother and husband of the judge. <\/span> <\/p>\n

During the monitoring period, the company “Dalia-08”, which has won EU funding<\/a>, reports zero personnel costs. By 2016, when the monitoring of the project expires, the company has generated net sales revenues totaling BGN 98,000, which means that the business plan has not been implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n

The house has been categorized<\/a> as a tourist site shortly after the big scandal with the mothers-in-law houses broke out in April 2019. The order of the mayor of Dolna Banya for the categorization is from 25.04.2019. This is in the very midst of the scandal after the resignation of Deputy Minister of Economy Alexander Manolev, owner of such a house with a mineral pool, revealed by Bivol<\/a> in a publication on April 12, 2019. The mayor of Dolna Banya<\/a> himself has also acquired a guest house with European funding.<\/span><\/p>\n

All this indicates that the house was mainly for personal use and not for the development of tourism under the rural program, which is the purpose of these EU funds. Only after the scandal with the “mothers-in-law” broke out, the owners tried to gloss over the situation with registration and categorization, as well as staff costs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite all the evidence that the house is fake, no SFA sanction has been imposed. There is evidence that the prosecutor’s office refused to initiate pre-trial proceedings for this project after the mass inspection of guest houses several years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the property for the house, the family acquires a cheap and municipal property nearby. Both properties are in Fr. Dolna Banya – resort with mineral baths with hot mineral water. Our inspection showed that Doncheva<\/span> She did not declare <\/b>increased area of the second plot of land and building listed in the Cadastre. In two property declarations (2008 and 2016) she managed to <\/span>declares false data<\/b> concerning the same title deed.<\/span><\/p>\n

In July 2016, Judge <\/span>Daniela Doncheva<\/b> was elected President of the Sofia Court of Appeal, and from May 2022 she was a second term at the head of the court as the only candidate for the post.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pool financed by EU funds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n