The Bulgarian Minister of Health, Bojidar Nanev, was charged Tuesday of squandering public funds for the purchase of vaccines against H1N1, for an amount considered too high and whose delivery was too late, said prosecutors in Sofia.
"Mr. Nanev has prejudiced the state to the tune of 2.5 million leva (1.28 million). The Ministry of Health was really able to get a more favorable contract " said Attorney Margarita Nemska. The Bulgarian government had ordered 200,000 doses of Tamiflu from Roche the Swiss laboratory for 6.5 million leva (3.3 million), while it had received an offer of around 2 million euros to the same amount, from the British health service, said the prosecutor. The latter said he had also accused a senior official of the Ministry of Health. Moreover, justified the prosecution, the vaccines were delivered only in January, a month and a half after the end of the influenza epidemic in Bulgaria. The prosecution was brought by health authorities British had protested and the Bulgarian anti-corruption service, because the doses of Tamiflu had been purchased regardless of the procedure governing public procurement.
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