August 20 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Thursday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
DNEVNIK
- Bulgaria plans to set up a special state-run agency that will mediate all the real estate deals in the country to ensure improved tax collection and averting of possible money laundering. The future Deposit and Consignation Fund can also mediate all car sales. It will not function as a bank, the head of the Notary Chamber Dimitar Tanev said.
- Bulgaria is launching an initiative to set up a Balkan Transplantation Centre, Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev said. The idea is to invite EU members Greece and Romania to join first and then include the rest of the Balkan countries, he said.
- Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said he will order financial audits of the main petrol retailers in Bulgaria: OMV, Eko, Shell and Lukoil. Borisov's government has said it will aim to crack down on petrol and diesel smuggling in a bid to boost budget revenue.
- Bulgaria will launch a new Web portal giving access to all the municipal budgets, procurements notices all over the country and information from the central government's 15 ministries. www.bgactivecitizen.eu portal will aim to help people looking for official information find it make governance more transparent.
- The U.S. Army plans to spend $45 million in the coming three years on infrastructure projects in its bases in Bulgaria, data of the U.S. government Web portal Federal Business Opportunities (www.fbo.gov) showed.
STANDART
- Bulgarian tourism entrepreneur Georgi Gergov, who owns the Sunny Day resort complex on the Black Sea coast and the Saint Petersburg hotel in Plovdiv, said he had paid 330,000 euro deposit take part in a tender for the sale of Sofia-based Radisson SAS hotel. He added he had heard the price of the hotel is about 80 million euro.
TRUD
- The head of the National Revenue Agency (NRA) Krasimir Stefanov said that enormous discrepancies between the prices of goods, which importers declare to the Bulgarian customs office, and the retail prices of those goods in local shops have emerged after NRA's information network was linked to the network of the customs office earlier this month. Imported clothes selling for up to 500 levs in local shops were imposed a customs duty of just 0.28 levs on the basis of unrealistically low prices declared by their importers, Stefanov said.
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)