site.btaParliamentary Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate Possible Corruption in National Customs Agency

Parliament decided during its Wednesday sitting to have an ad hoc committee investigate corrupt practices in the National Customs Agency and the possible role of outgoing Finance Minister Assen Vassilev in those practices. The decision tabled by There Is Such a People (TISP) passed with 133 votes in favour, 10 against and 40 abstentions.

The committee will have to draw up a report on the results of its work and the facts and circumstances established. It will work for one month and will be composed of 12 MPs elected on a parity basis, one from each parliamentary group. The committee members will be Temenuzhka Petkova and Raya Nazaryan of GERB-UDF, Venetsia Netsova-Angova and Konstantin Bachiyski of Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB), Jordan Tzonev and Hamid Hamid of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Kliment Shopov and Dimo Drenchev of Vazrazhdane, Rumen Gechev and Kristian Vigenin of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, and Toshko Yordanov and Stanislav Balabanov of TISP.

Yordanov was elected to chair the committee.