In January it emerged that the man in charge of Bulgaria's roads, Veselin Georgiev, had granted contracts worth hundreds of millions of euros to a company owned by his brother.
Earlier this month the government took a bold step when special police nabbed Colonel Veselin Sljivancanin, who had been indicted for the deaths of more than 200 Croats captured when the Serbs took the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991.