SOFIA: president Rumen Radev on Tuesday vetoed anti-graft legislation passed by Bulgaria´s parliament, saying the bill failed to offer the means to effectively investigate corruption networks.Radev acted only a day after Bulgaria, the European Union´s poorest country, assumed the six-month, rotating presidency of the bloc for the first time since it joined the EU in 2007.Bulgaria has made scant progress towards stamping out graft and organised crime, and the European Commission, the EU´s executive, has repeatedly rebuked the Black Sea country for failing to prosecute and sentence allegedly corrupt officials. According to Transparency International, Bulgaria is the EU´s most corrupt country. The legislation, approved by parliament on Dec. 20, entailed the creation of a special anti-graft unit meant to investigate persons occupying high public office as well as assets and conflicts of interest.
01-03-2018, 07:53 AM
Bulgaria president vetoes anti-graft law
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