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Former Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov has completely refused to help reveal the objective truth about the TZUM-Gate scandal, which broke out in early April 2017. This is clear from the documents on the inspection of the Judicial Inspectorate, which has Mediapool. The access to information case was won by civil activist Nikolay Nedelchev.
The report of the TZUM-gate Inspection in early July 2017. Its author is Inspector Ignat Georgiev, who explicitly states that the then-chief prosecutor refused to appear at the invitation to a hearing. Tsatsarov also declined to submit a written position. The Judicial Inspection was humiliated and forced to use the position of Attorney General, published on the website of the State Prosecutor’s Office.
The businessman and member of the BSP national leadership, Georgi Gergov, involved in the matter, also declined to send his explanation. Only the businessman and editor of the newspaper “Sega” Sasho Donchev meets and recounts his statements, which have already been made public.
The Judicial Inspection concluded that the evidence in the case was not sufficient to establish what the three had actually said to each other.
“The allegations of Mr. Donchev contain indications of unregulated behavior on the part of Mr. Tsatsarov, but remain isolated and without support of any evidence. The official position of the Attorney General states that during the meeting with the Attorney General a request was made to influence an ongoing inspection with a subject of the activity of an independent regulator, which was categorically rejected, “says the inspection report, which is denied by Sasho Donchev.
The report of the so-called an inspection cannot establish on whose initiative the meeting was in the central department store, not even the fact whether it was held.
“Therefore, the ISJC (Judicial Inspectorate) cannot categorically establish whether Tsatsarov’s behavior is contrary to established public perceptions of decency and whether his actions compromise the honor of magistrates in the profession and society, whether they are actions that damage the prestige of the judiciary. ” write in the report.
Inspector Georgiev recalls that magistrates are not prohibited from meeting with businessmen. His conclusion that the meeting itself is not reprehensible or that it has damaged the prestige of the judiciary is doubtful.
In front of his fellow inspectors, Ignat Georgiev explained that the participants in the meeting were asked who the initiative was, but only Sasho Donchev responded. In the end, the judicial inspectors decided to close the case unanimously, and the institution withheld this information from the media for more than three years.
The TZUM-Gate affair was a living example of pressure from the Attorney General on an independent media editor. Red businessman Georgi Gergov hosted a meeting in his private office (located in the central department store) between Sasho Donchev and the prosecutor № Sotir Tsatsarov. As Donchev said at the time, Tsatsarov asked him about the content of the Sega newspaper and the Hristo Komarnitsky cartoons, as well as whether he financed the Yes Bulgaria party and why he did so after having a good deal. Furthermore, according to Donchev, Tsatsarov asked him: “You doubt that your telephones and communications are under control?” Subsequently, the Attorney General flatly refused to answer questions about the case. His thesis was that he had not met with defendants or criminals and that he had not violated the law.
The TZUM-Gate case illustrates how irresponsible and untouchable the Attorney General can be. In April 2017, the SJC handed over Tsatsarov and refused to deal with the scandal, after the chief prosecutor refused to explain to the judiciary. The SJC later went against its own practice of investigating such cases. The Judicial Council carried out, albeit formally, an inspection of Yanevagate, and almost ten years ago the scandal with the political-judicial lobbyist Krasio Chernia was stopped. A total eclipse was dropped at the door of the central department store, and Tsatsarov’s reluctance to speak about the meeting was obvious.
Before the SJC, Tsatsarov confirmed that he had attended the meeting with Georgi Gergov and Sasho Donchev. According to him, the scandal was a “stage”. Later, he did not deny that they were close acquaintances with Gergov from the Plovdiv line.
The TZUM-gate scandal came after the businessman and editor of the Sega government critical newspaper, Sasho Donchev, announced that the meeting had been organized by Gergov and held in his office at the TZUM on Tsatsarov’s initiative. The attorney general then announced that it was not he but Donchev who initiated the meeting, in which he tried to pressure in connection with an inspection of his company Overgas. Both, obviously, will not be subject to an impartial investigation, even if Sasho Donchev was heard on the phone.
Tsatsarov explained that Gergov and Donchev were not accused and were not accused, but it later became clear that the prosecution was showing some interest in the activities of their companies.
Many have forgotten that prior to this SJC meeting for the Central Department Store Gate, a dozen tall, healthy boys in masks appeared in front of a building and were holding bloody lamb’s heads in their hands. This was an absolute threat to the six members of the SJC, who allowed themselves to submit the proposal for an inspection of Sotir Tsatsarov.
Earlier, in the same vein, the area around the SJC woke up with the obituaries of Kamen Sitnilski, who was still alive at the time and opposed Tsatsarov on the council. Sitnilski was subsequently illegally removed from the SJC and later died.
Shortly before the end of Tsatsarov’s term as chief prosecutor, the ruling coalition and the MRF appointed him head of the anti-corruption commission (KPKONPI).
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