2024-08-18 10:20:44
Surprisingly, Rumen Gaitanski-Valka voluntarily surrendered to the anti-corruption commission today. He went there at 3 p.m., accompanied by lawyer Krasimir Donkov, replacing his titular defender Konstantin Simeonov, who is currently abroad.
A day earlier, the prosecutor’s office announced that Gaitanski, together with the former head of the Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB), Stoyan Mavrodiev, were brought in as defendants for taking an unsecured loan in the amount of nearly BGN 148 million. “It is absolutely impossible to understand such an accusation , because Gaitanski has no way to incite the CEO to carry out such embezzlement”, commented Simeonov.
Lawyer Ivan Georgiev was also accused. He was a judge until 2016, and is currently close to Gaitansky and a representative of his company “Rodway Construction”. The lawyer was released on Friday on BGN 50,000 bail after spending 24 hours in jail.
According to lawyer Simeonov Gaitanski
has connected
as early as Thursday
in the morning
with the investigators
inspectors
by the Anti-Corruption Commission (CPC). He returned from Greece on the same day when the searches were carried out. And on the morning of August 15, he agreed to appear at the inspectors the same day at 2:30 p.m. This is just an hour after the prosecutor’s office made a statement and called for political pressure not to be applied to them.
The interesting thing is that the building of the commission is located meters from the Courthouse in Sofia – on “Sveta Nedelya” square. However, Gaitanski and lawyer Krasimir Donkov were returned to the entrance of the KPK on Thursday with an invitation to appear the next day at 3 p.m. Today, Gaitanski spent only an hour and a half in the KPK before they took him to the pretrial detention center. There he was charged with embezzlement and detained for 72 hours. A request for permanent arrest will probably be submitted to the Sofia City Court on Monday.
The action in properties related to Gaitanski and Stoyan Mavrodiev was on Wednesday. However, only the representative of Roadway Construction, lawyer Ivan Georgiev, was found then. That is why rumors started that not only Gaitanski, but also Mavrodiev are in Greece.
The accusations of
all three are in favor
officially
appropriation in
especially large ones
sizes, Gaitanski was the instigator, and Ivan Georgiev was an accomplice.
The scheme is as follows. BBR granted the loan to “Roadway Construction” in June 2019. With the money, the company controlled by Rumen Gaitanski bought the shares of “Road Engineering” AD, which is owned by another of his companies – “Bio Mining”. “Roadway” transferred the money from the loan to “Bio Mining”, and “Bio Mining” granted a loan to “Kristalna Voda” JSC. This company is owned by Gaitanski’s wife and is the guarantor of the loan given by Commercial Bank D to the Varna TPP. After BBR disburses the BGN 148 million, “Crystalna Voda” repays with part of it the obligations of Ahmed Dogan’s thermal power plant.
The collateral for the loan to BBR is fictitious, the investigation revealed. A contract of “Road Construction Engineering” for the supply of materials was presented, but it was terminated a week after it was signed.
So
the credit remains
unsecured
and is written off as
uncollectable
The signatures under the loan agreement between BBR and Roadway Construction are Stoyan Mavrodiev as the director of the bank and Ivan Georgiev as representing the company.
It was founded a few months before the loan was granted and formally has nothing to do with Rumen Gaitanski-Valka. “Roadway Construction” is owned by “Kamenni Fraksii” EOOD, which since 2021 is owned by Ivan Georgiev. The headquarters of most of his companies are in the offices of Valka’s companies. According to the KPK, all the companies in the loan case are under his control.
The investigation began in October 2022 on a tip from the BBI. The prosecutor is looking for an official crime. Assigns it to GDBOP. From there, they suggest that it be transferred to an investigator at the city prosecutor’s office. On May 5, 2023
the case is
discontinued
because there was none
evidence
for an official crime. The appellate prosecutor’s office confirmed the decree, but the Supreme Court sent it back for further investigation because gaps were found – connections between the companies involved were not investigated and no evidence of misappropriation of the money was sought. In January this year the case is returned to the prosecutor, who terminated it. It was again assigned to an investigator, but after the changes to the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, it was given to their inspector.
The name of Rumen Gaitanski gained publicity in the 90s of the last century, when it turned out that his companies DITC and “Wolf 96” had received the concession for Sofia’s garbage. It was discontinued in 2006 after the companies refused to clean and the capital was littered with garbage.
After
three years
lull along
Valka’s affairs in 2009, his name surfaced again in connection with a ready concession for one of the largest deposits of kaolin raw material in our country near Shumen. A candidate was “Müller Group”, associated with Gaitanski, but no deal was reached.
In 2018-2019, it became clear that Valka was back in Sofia’s garbage business, albeit through the back door. His company “Green Partners” has a contract with the municipal “Chistota Iskar”, to which it rents equipment for the cleaning of the “Lyulin”, “Krasno Selo” and “Krasna Polyana” areas. Meanwhile, Gaitanski won contracts for garbage collection in Stara Zagora, Sliven, Kardjali, Pomorie and elsewhere.
In 2005, he emerged as the owner of the “Maria Luiza” bathhouse in Borisova Garden in Sofia, which has been falling apart for nearly 20 years. (24 cups)
l Already on Thursday morning he had contacted
with the investigating inspectors who work
in the case of the unsecured taken by BBR
credit in the amount of BGN 148 million.
l He was detained for 72 hours until Monday,
when the prosecution will request his arrest
Rumen Gaitanski walks along “Oborishte” street in March of this year.
PHOTO: “BULGARIA TODAY”