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In less than 24 hours, Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev received permission from his subordinates to speak about “specific” investigations. This became clear during his hearing in parliament on Thursday. The day before, at a meeting of the judicial commission, Geshev referred the deputies to a decision of the Constitutional Court, according to which he could not be asked for details of the cases.
In plenary, the hearing of the Attorney General in plenary was not as comfortable as in the Legal Committee. This shows how important it is to be subject to genuine parliamentary responsibility. Geshev is in parliament for two days in a row to present deputies for the first eight months of the year. On Wednesday he was asked about the investigations and on Thursday the BSP reminded him that they wanted his resignation due to a series of flaws.
Don’t you care how Peevski got rich?
The report on the work of the prosecutor’s office so far under Geshev’s leadership will not be endorsed by the BSP. This was made clear in the words of the BSP leader, Cornelia Ninova. He said the party had presented numerous signals on various issues over the past four years, but did not know what was happening to any of them.
Ninova asked how long it would take the prosecution to establish whether the leaked recordings belonged to Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and whether the photos from his bedroom were authentic. There are inspections in both cases, but the only thing the state prosecutor’s office says is that they are working. Earlier, Geshev said from the rostrum that he had a “full report” on the inspection of the house in Barcelona. But work is still going on there.
“They have a full report on Barcelona, but I don’t have any results,” said Red MP Anton Kutev in response. He criticized the prosecution for not having been able to establish for months who had recorded and filmed Borissov, despite the fact that explanations were denied him on three occasions.
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“If you are investigating car theft at that rate, kill me, I don’t understand how it reduced them, I think Covid has reduced them further,” Kutev said. The deputy recalled that back in 2014, the then chief prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said that Deyan Peevski was mentioned in the documents in the case of the Corporate Commercial Bank drain. The initials DP are present on some of the seized handwritten notes, and amounts in the millions are marked against them. However, Peevski’s name is not mentioned once in the indictment. Its author is Geshev, who was a supervising prosecutor.
Kutev added that in 2014, when Peevski’s name was mentioned in connection with the Corporate Commercial Bank, the MP declared zero property to the National Audit Office and two years later, real estate dividends in the millions.
“Once you’ve gotten very rich, shouldn’t you contact the prosecution again? Until we take these steps, you can’t convince us that you’re fighting crime, you’re fighting part of crime,” Kutev said. He recalled that the BSP is demanding Geshev’s resignation.
I tried to ask my colleagues
Presenting his report, Geshev said he was not prepared to answer specific questions on Wednesday. However, he later sought the permission of the supervising prosecutors to disclose information and received information on some of the cases.
Therefore, the Attorney General summarized that they are actively working on the two cases against the gambling boss Vasil Bozhkov. He stressed that the prosecution would do everything possible to make his collection of antiquities the property of the “Bulgarian people” because they suspected that it had been illegally excavated on Bulgarian land.
He also boasted of the good work in the case against the businessmen Atanas and Plamen Bobkovi, in which thousands of tons of hazardous waste were excavated in various parts of the country.
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