Elsewhere, however, other countries are paying a high price for the privatisation of water by the French. In Bulgaria too, Veolia has exported its practices - with the usual degree of drift.
Is this a well thought-out system? A “Veolia” system which, based on this list of features, allows the company to make great profits? In uncovering this story, the journalists draw a parallel between the case of the company’s operation in the city of Sofia through Sofiyska Voda and the well-known scandals involving the company in France as well as in other Europeans countries.
The specificity of this case seems to lie in a possible violation of the Bulgarian public procurement framework by the company through one of its subsidiaries: SADE France. But also in the troubling attribution of other procurements to Burgargeomin Ltd, the notorious company at the centre of a state scandal in Bulgaria for the hijacking of a Libyan tanker in 2018 and owned by Tsvetan Tsanev, a former Soviet-era intelligence officer linked to the Cosa Nostra mafia organisation.
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