He claimed he did not realise at the time Mr Georgiev was injured.

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Bulgarian radio said that the sole doctor among the accused, Zdravko Georgiev, cried out: "This is horrible, this is impossible!"

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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.

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