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Today, December 10, 2020, the sixth panel of the Specialized Criminal Court ruled under NOHD № 3555/2018 for theft of the “Billa” store in Sofia, Studentski Grad, announced the press center of the special court.
The defendant Emil Milev was sentenced to 16 years in prison, Kaloyan Batsov and Martin Dimitrov to 6 years in prison each. The sentence is subject to appeal and protest within 15 days before the Specialized Criminal Court of Appeals. This is Milev’s second severe sentence in 2020, after the Supreme Court of Cassation upheld his 17-year, six-month prison sentence in April for armed robbery in front of a ProCreditbank branch in Sofia’s Lyulin district.
We remind you that Milev has been in detention since his arrest on January 11, 2018. Two courts ordered his pre-trial detention and subsequently the appeals court did not grant any of his requests that the court change the measure to a lighter one. On October 24, 2018, the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office filed an accusation against the three defendants in the case before the Specialized Criminal Court. In addition to participating in an organized criminal group, they were brought to trial for armed robbery on December 30, 2008 at the Billa store. Then, at exactly 11 pm, they attacked the hypermarket through an official entrance dressed in dark clothing, with masks, bulletproof vests with the inscription “Police” and armed with Kalashnikov rifles and pistols. They are simulating a police operation to avoid possible resistance from the security guards and about twenty employees in the store after the end of the working day. They depend on solid prey due to the high turnover expected on New Year’s Eve.
Participants arrive in front of the loading ramp with a black jeep. They handcuffed the security guards who received them, gathered all the employees in one of the rooms and collected the available turnover from the store vault: BGN 193,024. The store employees understand that this is not a police operation, but a robbery, only when they hear the clatter of empty cassettes falling to the ground in the vault, where the working capital is stored. Within ten minutes of entering the store, the three of them leave the hypermarket through the main entrance. The glass door for visitors at this time is locked and Milev has to knock it down with an automatic slope. The robbers boarded the black jeep and drove off in an unknown direction.
The investigation of the case established that the preparations for the “strike” lasted eight months. Milev organized his group in February 2008, attracting two trusted acquaintances. He later intended to include two other people who had complete information about the store’s operation, security, office locations, and the vault to store working capital. It was important to him that they also have ideas on how to collect a large amount. Milev explained that he would act alongside other “two of his men”, persuaded them to give money to buy a powerful car with which to retire. He even set a date and time for the robbery, but then neither he nor “his two men” showed up at the designated location. Days later, the two “newcomers” of the group learned that the robbery had occurred without their participation and that Milev had used them to gather information.
After his arrest on January 11, 2018, Emil Milev filed 33 complaints against judges, prosecutors, investigators, judicial guards (most of whom work in specialized courts and prosecutor’s offices). All of them are solely due to the pre-trial proceedings of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office against his group. They are also accompanied by requests to initiate pre-trial proceedings against magistrates and employees. Milev’s number of complaints to other institutions is not small, announced the press center of the Special Prosecutor’s Office.
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