{"id":29126,"date":"2023-01-03T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T10:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/?p=29126"},"modified":"2024-12-28T23:31:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T22:31:40","slug":"recovery-plan-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/en\/recovery-plan-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s good, but it will recover: GP Group, Trace Group, Ciela – contractors under the Recovery and Resilience Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several very non-random companies are already among the first to claim <\/span>tens of millions of levs<\/b> payments under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (HEU). Favorite builders of GERB “<\/span>GP Group<\/b>‘ i ‘<\/span>Trace Group Hold<\/b>” will receive respectively <\/span>48.2 million Lv.<\/b> \u0438 <\/span>75 million Lv.<\/b> European funds as contractors for a project of the municipal “Metropolitan” EAD for the construction of a section of line 3 of the metro in Sofia. <\/span>“<\/span>Ciela Norma<\/b>” of Ivan Todorov – considered close to DPS MP Delyan Peevski, who <\/span>sues CEC<\/span><\/a> for voting machines, will receive <\/span>443 thousand. Lv.<\/b> for “providing an adequate information and administrative environment” for the implementation of the University of Defense, under a project of the Council of Ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>Ciela Norma<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/a>” AD participates in the project<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a> of the Council of Ministers through DZZD “JV Da-Si”, in which it participates together with “<\/span>DAVID Holding<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>“ <\/span>” AD. The full amount agreed BGN 1 519 200 for both companies has already been requested for payment.<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>GP Group<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/a>” AD became famous in 2018 in the scandal <\/span>#\u0414\u0436\u0438\u041f\u0438\u0413\u0435\u0439\u0442<\/b> – revelations of large-scale misuse of European and budget funds by consulting and construction companies associated with <\/span>Valentin Zlatev<\/b>. Then the investigative journalist <\/span>
\n Dimitar Stoyanov<\/span>
\n<\/a> and his Romanian colleague Attila Biro were detained during the investigation <\/span>#\u0414\u0436\u0438\u041f\u0438\u0413\u0435\u0439\u0442<\/b>. The then Deputy Prime Minister of GERB <\/span>Tomislav Donchev<\/b> filed a signal to the Prosecutor’s Office on <\/span>the publication<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a> of Bivol and the co-owner of “GP Group” <\/span>Georgi Vassilev<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/a> was charged <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/a>. The Attorney General at the time <\/span>Sotir Tsatsarov<\/b> announced a suspended transfer of 14 million euros. To date <\/span><\/span> There is no information about<\/span> what is happening with this accusation of the prosecutor’s office.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>
\n Trace Group Hold<\/b>
\n<\/a>“AD was also investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office over the crash near Svoge in which 20 people died on 25.08.2018. The company as a participant in DZZD “Trace Svoge” performs the repair of the unfortunate road. Then the civil movement BOETS imported<\/span> signal<\/span><\/a> against <\/span>Boyko Borisov<\/b> in the Prosecutor’s Office, and subsequently<\/span> revealed<\/span><\/a> that Ivan <\/span>Geshev’s<\/b> wife was the lawyer of one of the interrogated bosses of Trace. <\/span> To date, the case has not yet been allowed to go to court. The charges against officials have been returned by the court and the prosecutor’s office has terminated the pre-trial proceedings against them. The bus driver and several others were charged.<\/span><\/p>\n

Repairs to repairs – they are nice!<\/span><\/h2>\n

“<\/span>
\n GP Group<\/b>
\n<\/a>“JSC is involved in many scandalous repairs in Sofia, which had to be repaired anew. The most scandalous of these is <\/span>
\n Repair<\/span>
\n<\/a> of ul. “Graf Ignatiev”, for which the former Deputy Mayor of Sofia Evgeni Krusev – acquitted by the Supreme Court of Cassation in May 2022 – was also charged. The cases of “repair repairs” and “repair repairs” prompted Sofia residents to create the popular hashtags <\/span>
\n #\u0420\u0435\u043c\u043e\u043d\u0442\u041d\u0430\u0420\u0435\u043c\u043e\u043d\u0442\u0430<\/span>
\n<\/a>, <\/span>
\n #Hubavo<\/span>
\n<\/a> and <\/span>
\n #HubavoE<\/span>
\n<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>
\n Trace Group Hold<\/b>
\n<\/a>” AD became famous with the scandalous repair of the <\/span>
\n yellow bricks<\/b>
\n<\/a> in front of the National Assembly. Sofia Municipality imposed a fine of BGN 100,000 on the company for <\/span>
\n damaged<\/span>
\n<\/a> yellow paving stones.<\/span><\/p>\n

Favorite builders of GERB and Fandakova in Sofia<\/span><\/h2>\n

The contract for financing the municipal enterprise<\/span> “Metropolitan<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>” EAD with European funds under the Recovery and Sustainability Plan was signed on 27.07.2022. This shows the information in UMIS for project <\/span>BG-RRP-8.006-0001-C01<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a> for the construction of a new section of line 3 of the metro in Sofia. The total value of the project is BGN 217.5 million. 100% EU funding under the priority axis “Transport Connectivity”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Longtime head of “<\/span>
\n Metropolitan<\/span>
\n<\/a>“EAD is Stoyan Bratoev, who was the manager of Himmash<\/a>, a company of Yordan Hristov. The latter gained fame<\/a> as a new \/temporary\/ husband of Borislava Yovcheva – Miss Bikini with the House in Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

GP<\/b> Group and<\/span> Trace Group Hold<\/b> will receive <\/span>48.2m euros respectively. Lv.<\/b> and <\/span>75 million<\/b><\/span> European funds as contractors. Over 52 million BGN of these funds have already been claimed for payment (column Reported value**). Detailed information about all contractors and their requested amounts can be viewed <\/span>
\n here<\/span>
\n<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Public procurement No <\/span>
\n 00423-2019-0030<\/span>
\n<\/a> The construction of the new section of line 3 of the metro was announced on 18.12.2019. The contracts with “Trace Group Hold” AD amounting to 75 081 394.50 BGN and with “GP Group” AD worth 48 180 061.30 BGN. are <\/span>Concluded<\/span><\/a> On 21.10.2021 the initial financing of the project was envisaged under the Operational Programme on Transport and Transport Infrastructure. The contracts already awarded are now reported and submitted for funding under the Recovery and Sustainability Plan.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"
\n\"\"<\/h2>\n

Subsequent HEU payments are at risk<\/span><\/h2>\n

On 16.12.2022, Bulgaria received the first tranche under the Recovery and Resilience Plan amounting to EUR 2.7 billion. Lv. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, the second stage of the HEU remained with <\/span>
\n 57 outstanding targets<\/span>
\n<\/a>. The deadline for their implementation expired on 31.12.2022 and the second and subsequent payments under the plan can no longer be received on time. One of the unfulfilled goals is the change of anti-corruption legislation and the reform of KPKONPI.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

BIRD will monitor the implementation of the HEU and will integrate the data from the UMIS system into its public scanner – an information system that brings together information about public<\/a> funds aimed at companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

A temporary <\/span>search engine<\/b> is currently available.<\/p>\n

<\/a> for beneficiaries of the EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Plan. It includes 953 candidate companies proposed for funding with a total of over 255m euros. Lv. under procedure BG-RRP-3.004 “Technological modernization” under the priority axis “Intelligent Industry”, under which a total of over BGN 1.5 billion (1 566 054 000) are envisaged.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the first approved projects are found companies related to <\/span>the Backstage.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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