BGN 10 million to return for beneficiaries under SAPARD abuse

Almost 10 million grant to restore the SAPARD Agency those beneficiaries for whom the prosecution has proven abuse made after inspections. For this the press office of the State Fund Agriculture. In the book of debtors were 98 recorded a total project, already submitted data for 10 cases, which found the use of false documents. Projects of 13 municipalities were also recorded in this book, because of perceived violations of the Agency’s audit of EU funds, reported from the office.
308 are outstanding projects under SAPARD subsidy by over EUR 152 million of them are 106 municipalities in the program of public measures, the remaining 201 are private projects. To optimize the work of employees in the SAPARD Agency has introduced a timetable for processing the remaining requests for payment. At the same time all of them run under the accredited inspection procedures for implementing the program. Checks are the accuracy of marketing offers and levels of prices declared by the beneficiaries of supply. Agency officials monitored and whether the projects have been otherwise benefiting from financial transactions to suppliers.
In connection with the resumption of payments under SAPARD by the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development in Brussels and the European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF stated that the successful completion of the program in Bulgaria is extremely important that the European regulations continue to be respected as a necessary in the present administration in the State Agricultural Fund is protected from pressure from stakeholders.

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