SOFIA (Reuters) - The Bulgarian prime minister's chief of staff was charged on Thursday with aiding in the embezzlement of European Union funds, two weeks after two senior magistrates were charged with the scheme.
Prosecutors said that in 2009 Maria Divizieva helped the magistrates present false statements in an EU-funded project worth over 400,000 levs (167,765 pounds). Divizieva, then the head of the managing authority of an EU aid programme, "facilitated through advice and promises to provide assistance," they said.
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