Arrested for beating a worker- Who is the owner of the Bulgarian firm that the Kurti Government awarded the tender for the Pristina-Mitrovica road?

Company from Kosovo “Eskavator” and Bulgaria's “Hirdrostroy” have been contracted to extend nine kilometers of roads on the Pristina-Mitrovica highway. Bulgarian firm owner Veliko Zhelev is among the richest in Bulgaria. He also has a criminal precedent.

Zev's name became internationally recognised last year, but not for good work. He was arrested for blackmail and physical assault on his former employee, Blagoy Andonov.

The same man was released on parole after denying that he had attacked his worker.

Blagoy Andonov was director of the Construction Directorate at Zhelev's VDH company.

Jelev bought the company by a person linked to a Bulgarian MP, Delyan Peevski (now sanctioned for corruption under the Magnitsky Act).

Zhelev is also mentioned in misuse of public contracts.

In February 2023, the Bulgarian Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works managed to discover that a third of the asphalt was missing on a highway near Sofia. The winning construction company was “Hydrostroy” of the Bulgarian businessman.

According to Bulgarian media, the demand was that asphalt be 28cm thick, but that Zhelev with his company had been paved only 20 sosh, writes Inseder newspaper.

The Bulgarian businessman's name is also coveted in the media in Fiji.

Three Bulgarian nationals who were involved in the alleged fraud of ATMs in Fiji have pleaded guilty.

Simeon Stefanov Minchev, Veliko Zev and Plamen Dimitrov Petrov at the Magic Court in Lauland were found guilty of charges.

The first indictee Simeon Stefanov Minchev has been charged with a separate charge of criminalising unauthorized access to limited data for using a data theft device at the Brad Bank in Lauland.

The second and third indictees Veliko Zhelev and Plamen Dimitrov Petrov were accused of attempting unauthorized access to limited data at the Brad Bank in Namaka and installation of a camera at the Westpac Namaka branch.

What did authorities say today about economic operators?

“dedicated to maximum”. So said Infrastructure Minister Lieburn Aliu, of economic operators who won the million-euro tender for extending nine kilometers from the Great River to Gojbula.

The invaders pledged that the works would be carried out for a year.

Prime Minister Kurti from the country seized the opportunity to attack past non-work powers.

There have been weak plans and poor preparations in the past and long procrastination. Now, with our Government, we have a lot of preparation, detailed plans, so even jobs are regular according to procedures, under law surveillance and speed where there will be no lack of commitment, but also monitoring these companies as economic operators”, Kurti has declared.

We're going to have two-way national roads, each in two lanes. In addition to the lane is 3.75cm, there will also be an auxiliary lane to the side, which will be two feet of”, the head of government has said further.

This part is known to have enormous traffic density and is good news for all citizens. This becomes part of much larger ties. Of course it's a good day. The company from Kosovo, the company from Bulgaria, already works together, is being monitored by a company from Austria. So all citizens of the Republic, congratulations and congratulations. We'll try to make things go well, good and fast,”