BSP asked Geshev all the important questions, the answers are embarrassing

BSP MPs Krum Zarkov, Yavor Bojankov and Christian Vigenin asked the chief prosecutor all the important questions about last year’s historical investigations and the style of their public comments. Thus, citizens managed to learn that the collection of the accused gambling boss Vasil Bozhkov costs more than one billion euros, that Prime Minister Boyko Borissov was questioned three times as a witness this year alone, that the case in which the president was heard on the phone was initiated by an incompetent prosecution. As well as that the European institutions have been deceived by the political propaganda in Bulgaria.

Christian Vigenin asked the first important question during Geshev’s hearing in the parliamentary legal committee. Wonder if the prosecution has lists of cases against politicians.

Geshev’s answer was that the prosecution does not make lists, but due to questions from the LIBE committee in the European Parliament, an analysis has been carried out. It follows that most of the cases have been brought against GERB representatives, mainly in the local government. “The reason is logical. They have the largest number of representatives (in local government).”said the chief prosecutor, adding: “I see that we are in a pre-electoral situation. We are not a player in this field. “

The European institutions are wrong, I am not untouchable

Vigenin asked the conclusion of the European Commission report that the Bulgarian Attorney General is untouchable.

Ivan Geshev reiterated his thesis that this vision is shaped by a certain political and media circle in Bulgaria. It was they who built “Such an opinion in the European institutions, which is not true”. “This is a myth”Geshev said, adding that if the Bulgarian MPs decide that such a problem really exists, they must solve it.

“I am not concerned with creating different control figures, the objective is not control, but the removal of the attorney general.”, declares.

“It is almost impossible for me to commit a crime on my work.”Geshev announced. He then explained that he did mainly both: he issued general guidelines for the application of the law and acted on the supervision of legality. In the end, however, he recalled that he could repeal the acts of the prosecutors, and last year he repealed only eight acts.

According to Geshev, the thesis that there is no one to investigate the attorney general is “propaganda”. “This means 1,500 people do not have the courage or have some other mental problem.”he said in response to Krum Zarkov.

“The probability that the attorney general commits a crime is of the same intensity as the deputies, the president …”, explained Geshev, who published the recorded conversations of President Rumen Radev, which suggested that the head of state had committed a crime.

Finally, Geshev said about the European Parliament resolution that it was an act of a political body and that it did not “participate in political games”.

Here’s a package of 500 euros, Mr. Attorney General

About half an hour after the start of the hearing, an activist from Democratic Bulgaria managed to hit the chief prosecutor with printed 500 euro bills and was immediately taken out of the courtroom. Upon leaving, the man asked Geshev to explain where the 4 billion from the Corporate Commercial Bank are. The chief prosecutor tried to joke about the incident, first commenting that the protester was apparently very wealthy.

Finally, Geshev concluded: “It was fun. I hope objective journalists cover it objectively.”. He explained that he did not rely on other journalists who wrote with statements against the Prosecutor’s Office.

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“There’s a good thing in everything bad. He could have passed the NSO guard with a gun.”Geshev said. A little later, he clarified that he did not trust the NSO, although his brother worked there.

We have already taken a billion euros from Bozhkov

In response to questions from deputies, Ivan Geshev also revealed a long-kept secret: How much is the Vasil Bozhkov collection worth? According to Geshev, the evaluation of only 212 the collection’s registered antiquities are worth one billion euros. The prosecution will try to prove that they were registered with false evaluations and confiscate them. The question remains for what reasons the prosecution confiscated the nearly 6,500 remaining antique items in the collection, which are not registered. The only possible reason is that they are the subject of a crime, but no public information has been released.

GERB MP Krassimir Tsipov asked Geshev what is happening with inspection of all privatization.

The attorney general responded that the objective was not inspect operating companies and their properties, and if there have been crimes committed by people in high government positions and if the statute of limitations has expired. Inspection of 50 transactions has been completed.

“When we are done, we will begin to release the information in parts.”Geshev said. This initiative by the prosecution has the potential to become a public lynching of persons on a list outside of the courtroom, without the participation of a judge and an attorney.

Bozhankov’s questions

BSP’s Yavor Bozhankov asked up to 10 questions on key issues, but the answers were too evasive and somewhat embarrassing. Ivan Geshev began the answers with a short introduction, in which he explained that he was a fan of Petko Karavelov. He was referring to the mythical story of Karavelov coming out of the Black Mosque dungeon, beaten by the police, and then telling foreigners that they were not beating in Bulgaria. Therefore, according to Geshev, Bulgarian institutions must be defended, even if they have been hit before.

Yavor Bozhankov asked why for two whole years. The case against former Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov continues. Ivan Geshev said he thought he had been invited to present an analytical report and did not have the authority to tell prosecutors how to decide their cases.

The second question was about the recordings and photos of Boyko Borisov’s bedroom. From the answer it was clear that there was one case for the photos and two controls for the other things. Geshev knew that Borisov had appeared three times to testify, but did not know otherwise. “If they had asked me the questions beforehand, I would have asked the supervising prosecutors. If they had allowed me, I would have told them more.”, he said, adding that no one asks Spanish prosecutors why the “Barcelonagate” case takes so long, but the Bulgarians are asking.

Bozhankov asked about suspicions that the Prosecutor General’s luxury car order for the Defense Office was established to buy Volkswagen cars. Geshev said that it had been checked by the financial inspection, that he found nothing wrong, and how could anything be done about the Germans?

When asked about “Apartmentgate”, Ivan Geshev announced that The Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office is reviewing all denials to initiate cases. “The prosecution deals with criminal responsibility, not with historical responsibility”, Geshev said.

Bozhankov asked if there was investigations against police officers for violence during the protest. It was clear from Geshev’s response that there were no cases against police officers, but there were more than 50 cases against protesters. “No police in Europe will tolerate as much fighting as the Bulgarian police.”Geshev announced and advised the BSP deputies to see how the French and German police reacted.

Asked about guest houses It turned out that there were hundreds of inspections, there was a sentence and all the cases were brought under special supervision.

The chief prosecutor had no information about the Badr oil case and the journalistic revelations about the connection of GERB MEP Emil Radev, as well as about the Bulgarian connection on the matter with FinCen’s financial files.

In response to a question about the controlled disclosure of selective information in certain cases, Geshev said: “It seems someone is afraid of the truth”. Then add: “The Bulgarian prosecutor’s office wants to build trust in Bulgarian citizens.”

One surprise was the question from “Will” MP Simeon Naidenov, who asked why almost 40% of pre-trial proceedings are not completed on time. Geshev explained that statistics don’t always give an objective picture and blamed legislators for the laws.

Good and bad oligarchs?

BSP deputy Krum Zarkov asked the chief prosecutor many questions, with a series of questions on “oligarchic” issues that made a special impression.

“Why do you define some of the accused as ‘oligarchs’? Have you pressed charges against all the oligarchs? “;” Are there good and bad oligarchs in Bulgaria? “.

“You are right that the term oligarchy is life, journalistic …”said Geshev, who often uses the term as chief prosecutor.

Krum Zarkov specifies: “Why is the conversation of this oligarch (Vasil Bozhkov) important when he is with a deputy or another oligarch, and not important when he is with the prime minister?”

Geshev replied that there was a “political undertone” in Zakov’s question. This issue does not have a legal aspect, but rather a journalistic and political one.

“If the actions of colleagues are politically correct and politically correct, I will not comment, this is in their field.”Geshev explained

Throughout the session, Ivan Geshev kept reminding Zarkov that he was a French graduate because the deputy had graduated from the Sorbonne (Geshev had graduated from the Academy of the Interior Ministry, but no one reminded him). He then explained that he would be happy to feel like a French chief prosecutor, but the reality in Bulgaria was different and the name of the chief prosecutor was mentioned too often.

I have no faith in NSO

Krum Zarkov asked about the status of the Protection Office, who is directly subordinate to the Attorney General and can make arrests. The answer was that there was nothing wrong, because the powers are given in the law and there are enough instructions. The natural continuation of this question was why Geshev renounced the protection of the NSO.

“When all the services of the country have judged that your life is in danger and that an egg does not hit you, everything is based on trust. I don’t trust the NSO, even though my brother works there. I cannot trust a service in which an employee is accused of being a member of a criminal group organized for hired homicides“Geshev said.

Finally, for the case of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, in which the conversations intervened by President Rumen Radev took place, the attorney general announced that he did not know much, but only that he was sent to competence of the military prosecutor. From the beginning it was suspected that the case was initiated by an incompetent prosecutor’s office, because the special prosecutor’s office cannot investigate the military, and that is exactly what it did. This only deepens the suspicion that not only the posting of phone conversations is illegal, but also the intervention itself.

“In what past period has there been more fight against corruption and more fight against organized crime?? “Ivan Geshev asked the deputies at the end of the hearing.