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Title: The case of "Vitosha" - skiers hostage
Date: 27-12-2011

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Description: The dispute between the state and "Vitosha ski" place of winter sports lovers around the capital in a situation as there was 50 years. Although the season has already begun, facilities in the mountains do not work.

The owners say they can not put them to use because the law does not allow them. According to authorities, however there are no obstacles in the snow to enjoy all comers.

Lawyer Petar Petrov - Member of the Board of Directors of "Vitosha Ski", said "This Morning" that the amendments to the Forestry them led to a situation where it is necessary to clean the cuttings and the establishment of the necessary easement on their facilities and trails.

He explained that this could not be risking people's lives and the operation can not begin without the recommendations.

In his words, those changes were imposed between the two readings under pressures from Plovdiv. And their goal was to be blocked by operators of cable facilities within the state forest fund.

Co-chair of a political party "The Greens" Andrey Kovachev, however disputed his claims, explaining that there is no problem to clean clearings, but the "Vitosha Ski" was not desired.

According to its owners acting in this way because they want the laws changed to allow them to put their detailed development plan, which envisages construction of 1100 acres of new ski equipment.

"These new facilities, which means to enter excavators in the mountain, the terrain is turned up to make potato fields," he said.

Petar Petrov determine his claims as ridiculous and non-truth. In his words, these 1100 acres just outside set limits, which can be located facilities and trails.

"We have only one regulated track -" Vitosha Tulip. " Everything else is snow fields. Under the new plan they will be labeled as runs - with coordinates and external borders. Plans are for the modernization of existing facilities present. Replacement is performed with aircraft rather than diggers, "said the lawyer.

Andrey Kovachev, however disagreed and said the "Vitosha Ski" unwilling to repair old equipment. He said that the company owner is an offshore company registered in the Cayman Islands.

Petrov again disagreed and explained that it was a Bulgarian legal entity in which the principal owner is an offshore company which is not prohibited by law. The lawyer added that their capital is a clear origin - it is a bank loan that is paid.




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