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The Minister of Environment, Waters and Forestry, Gratiela Gavrilescu, on Friday stated in Suceava that she took notice of the suspicions signaled by the media and by the representatives of the civil society referring to Austrian company Holzindustrie Schweighofer and that she will also notify the General Prosecutor's Office, if the alleged illegalities are confirmed.

Sofia City Court has terminated the legal case against former Deputy Parliament Speaker, Hristo Biserov. The indictment has been returned to the Prosecutor's Office, as announced by the court's press service.

The reason behind the development has been violation in the description of the case. the decision can be appealed in the following seven days.

The Sofia Appellate Court upheld on Thursday the verdict of the Sofia City Court, which had ruled to release Judge Rumyana Chenalova on bail.

The Appellate Court dismissed the request of the Prosecutor's Office to return Chenalova back to custody, daily Dnevnik reports.

In the period between 2007 and 2014, over 5,000 deals connected to selling of municipal properties and assets at prices lower than the market ones have been contracted in Pazardzhik.

The statement was made by municipal consul Rumen Petkov, representative of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) in an interview for bTV Thursday.

After inspecting twenty contracts on EU-funded projects in 2014, the Public Financial Inspection Agency has established violations in nineteen of them, BGNES reported.

The information became evident through a letter addressed from Director of the agency, Ventsislav Georgiev to the Bulgarian Parliament, sent on April 20.

The Sofia City Court has declared the state of bankruptcy of Bulgaria's Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB) and announced the initial date of its insolvency was November 6, 2014.

An Istanbul Public Prosecutor Office has prepared an indictment for Celal Kara, one of the prosecutors involved in the quashed graft investigations of December 2013, demanding that he be sentenced up to three years on misconduct charges.

GRACANICA - Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic warned on Tuesday that the latest proceedings in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) can jeopardise the survival of Serbs and added that the only solution lies in the constitution of the Community of Serb municipalities.

BELGRADE - The findings of two commissions about the March 13 helicopter crash in which six people and a baby died will be released on the website of the Defence Ministry on Friday, Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic told Tanjug.

"Alcohol found in crashed helicopter pilot's body"

BELGRADE -- The responsibility for the crash of a military helicopter in Belgrade last month was primarily with the members of its crew, it has been announced.

There are also "doubts that part of the responsibility lies with other military and civilian personnel," the Higher Public Prosecution said on Friday.