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Avionams aircraft repair plant becomes 100% state owned

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Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissov announced on Tuesday that Avionams aircraft repair plant in the village of Graf Ignatievo, South Bulgaria, becomes again 100% state owned. In 2008, 65% of the assets of that factory were bought by private investors and later in 2012 the rest of the state-owned assets of the plant were bought by private investor. The state regained possession of the plant, in order to repair Bulgarian and NATO aircraft there, Premier Borissov explained.




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