A total of 43 state employees have been sentenced on charges of corruption in 2007, Interior Minister Roumen Petkov said at a summit of the Commission for Prevention and Countering of Corruption.
 
Twenty-seven of the sentences had already been imposed, he said as quoted by investor.bg.

The number of state employees fired over corruption in 2007 was 131, 41 of which worked for the Interior Ministry. Nearly 210 investigations of corruption cases were launched between July 1 and November 30 2007, Petkov said.

State Administration Minister Nikolai Vassilev said that until now 809 state employees have taken anti-corruption courses.

Nikolai Georgiev, head of the chief inspectorate of the Cabinet, said that in a corruption case in the State Agency for Metrology and Technical Surveillance, the head of the agency, Olga Manapova, was to be fired.

Corruption cases were also found in cases of adoption of Bulgarian children by foreign citizens.

In 2007, the Commission for Prevention and Countering of Corruption will carry out scheduled and unexpected examination of the work of state administration employees and executive power. Property declarations of high-level state employees and cases where there is a discrepancy between income and lifestyle, will also be examined.