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7 hours agoBulgarian passport five times more expensive for Kosovars than for Macedonians
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Citizens of Macedonia have been privileged to receive Bulgarian passports. While they were equipped with Bulgarian travel documents have paid 1,000 euros, Kosovars interested in the same have needed five times that amount. In the past four years, such passports have received 70,000 Macedonians, while there is no [...]
This has emerged from testimony to Bulgarian national television BTV of a person who has been closely reported to “corrupt procedure” at the Bulgarian Agency abroad, a scandal that is shaking Bulgaria and causing the Agency's director to be arrested.
According to the witness, with candidates for Bulgarian passports working on over 100 mediators who have helped collect documents and address for the census. He has said that Macedonia's citizens for Bulgarian passports have paid up to a thousand euros, while Kosovo's citizens have paid up to five thousand euros.
You can easily become Bulgarian if you open companies and hire 10 workers. On the basis of business activities, the status of permanent residence is obtained. The second way is when foreign citizens of countries outside the EU own firms and issue documents for opening the trade headquarters in Bulgaria. The third version, which has been used most often in recent days, is to extract the document for Bulgarian descent”, the witness has said.
According to him, mediators have provided fake addresses for Bulgarian passport researchers.
Otherwise, in Bulgaria, the so-called investigations have led to the detention of three persons from the Bulgarian state agency abroad, while after the scandal four people have been arrested in Serbia, who are suspected of accepting bribes and forging documents for obtaining the Bulgarian passport.
Macedonia's Ministry of Internal Affairs say they have not received Bulgaria's request to lock in investigations into the problem, while saying they will act immediately if such is required.
