Nearly BGN 223,000 have been received in 2016 and 2017 by employees from the administration of former Blagoevgrad Mayor Atanas Kambitov. The money came from civil contracts with the municipal company “Blagoevgrad Invest 2016”. An inquiry conducted by the media with the current Blagoevgrad mayor Rumen Tomov has shown that in 2016 and 2017 the Deputy Mayor Hristina Shopova (with
Southwest State Enterprise – Blagoevgrad is registered in the Commercial Register on 8 July 2011. The enterprise manages the state’s forests in seven administrative areas – Blagoevgrad, Pazardzhik, Sofia City, Sofia District, Kyustendil, Pernik and Lovech. In its structure there are 41 territorial divisions, 36 of which are state forest holdings and 5 are state hunting holdings. The area of