Ministry of Transport revokes Besa Trans license

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The headquarters of "Besa Trans" / Photo: Free Press - Dragan Mitreski

The Besa Trans bus in which 45 people were killed and seven were injured terrible car accident on the highway "Struma" in Bulgaria, did not have a certificate of license for international free transport for passengers, nor for any other type of public transport of passengers. The vehicle is not registered in the electronic records of issued licenses, due to which the company "Besa Trans BTB" has its license revoked, ie it is prohibited to perform activities, informs the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

- According to the officially submitted data from the Ministry of Interior, regarding the burned vehicle with registration number SK-0284-BA owned by the company "Besa Trans BTB", which participated in the accident with tragic consequences in the Republic of Bulgaria, the Ministry of Transport and communications found that for the said vehicle no excerpt from the license for performing international free transport for passengers, nor for any other type of public passenger transport. The same vehicle is not registered in the electronic records of issued licenses and excerpts from licenses for performing public domestic and / or international passenger transport maintained by the Ministry of Transport and Communications, said the relevant Ministry.

The statement states that the Ministry of Transport and Communications has registered four licensed vehicles of the company "Besa Trans BTB", and the vehicle that participated in the accident is not among them.

- Pursuant to Article 12 of the Law on Road Transport, due to the shortcomings identified by the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and also in order to prevent any other action by the company that could cause negative consequences , the company "Besa Trans BTB" has had its license revoked, ie it has been banned from operating. In addition, the company is obliged to immediately deposit the license for international free passenger transport and excerpts from the license for international free passenger transport to the Ministry of Transport and Communications, according to the Ministry.

Additionally, they add, at the last session the Government instructed the State Inspectorate for Transport to perform an extraordinary inspection of the carrier "Besa Trans BTB".

- The Ministry of Transport and Communications is in full coordination with other state institutions and is available with the entire database, emphasize the Ministry.

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