Prof. Kostadin Angelov from GERB condemned the former Minister of Health Stoycho Katsarov. Angelov announced this on the social network Facebook, quoted by "Focus".
"The truth is like water.
It always finds a way. And I have always believed in this.
Proven slanderers and liars must pay for the harm and damage they cause with their words!
Today I sentenced Stoycho Katsarov for 50 thousand leva, because of his slander that I brought “Alexandrovska“ hospital to bankruptcy.
The Sofia City Court writes:
“The plaintiff K. A. /Kostadin Angelov/ took over the management of UMBAL “Alexandrovska“ EAD in 2013. in
a state of decapitalization, with accumulated accounting losses of almost 30 million leva."
“From the in-depth analysis of the collected oral evidence, it was found that the facts indicated by the defendant /Stoycho Katsarov/ are false. The shameful and defamatory statements were proven in the trial.
The truthfulness of the allegations made in Katsarov's statement is not supported by either written or oral evidence. So, Katsarov's statements that Kostadin Angelov, during the time he was the executive director of the hospital, accumulated huge debts, recklessly spent money and brought the “Alexandrovska" hospital to bankruptcy, the court found to be false, both with the collected written evidence described above and with oral evidence," wrote Prof. Angelov.
We recall that the case was filed before the Sofia City Court at the end of October 2021, when the court allowed a preliminary security for the claim and imposed a precautionary measure of "seizure" on Katsarov's bank accounts.
The two now former health ministers have repeatedly exchanged in absentia remarks about the measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Katsarov mostly attacked Angelov for the management of "Aleksandrovska" at the time when the current GERB-SDB MP was its director.
The main attacks of the acting minister were that Kostadin Angelov was responsible for the accumulation of debts at the medical institution.