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Ivan Vachkov is the longest-ruling magistrate of the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office in history – 19 years, given that in difficult times the chief prosecutor changes very often – in 1944, four Bulgarian politicians served in this position.
A prominent communist, Ivan Vachkov is also one of the few in this position who are career prosecutors. He was born in 1920 in the village of Prisovo in Veliko Tarnovo. He has been a member of the RMC since 1936 and of the Bulgarian Communist Party since 1944. In 1942, while studying law at the University of Sofia, he went underground.
He was captured and convicted
of death, but lies
in jail until
knock
on September 9, 1944. He completed his education in 1947. He was Attorney General of Bulgaria from 1962 to 1981, and in his early years in office he personally directed the case against a famous CIA spy Ivan-Assen Georgiev, against whom he was murdered. judgment.
Ivan Vachkov turned out to be one of the few investigated while in office. As chief prosecutor, he was accused of causing an accident with two victims, in which, however, the police did not dare to carry out on-site tests for alcohol consumption. Although this mandatory procedure for all other citizens under Ivan Vachkov would probably give a negative result.
A curious detail in the context of the traffic accident investigation against him is that from his youth he was an active member of the containment movement established in Bulgaria before the First World War. For many years, up to 6 anti-alcohol newspapers were published in Bulgaria, which were banned in 1938. Abstainers even hold regular congresses. The members are mainly communists, anarchists and farmers. Ivan Vachkov is probably
had a fixation on
sobriety of the subject
and until much later, because when reporting on his work to the National Assembly on June 28, 1973, he said the following in his report: An important part of the crimes in the country are the result of drunkenness.
Alcohol abuse is a leading cause of 85% of vandalism … nearly half of all homicides and rapes, and more than a third of injuries. The influence of alcohol on young people is especially harmful … “
Today you read a first-person story about the accident caused by Ivan Vachkov on the Trakia Highway. Tsvetan Dimitrov, a long-term investigator in serious economic and criminal crimes and head of the Inspectorate of the Interior Ministry under Minister Prof. Georgi Petkanov, remembers this day as a direct eyewitness.
It was 1980. In the spring. The chief prosecutor at the time was Ivan Vachkov. An authoritative and highly respected lawyer. And as a person, honest, correct and stable. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bulgaria, he ruled Bulgaria and everything. As an investigator in the Investigation Department of the Sofia District Administration, I received by phone an order from my superiors to immediately collect the bag with the investigation protocols, because an official car was waiting for me to go to inspect a car accident caused. by Chief Prosecutor Ivan Vachkov on the Trakia Highway. Vakarel.
This was our region, the investigation department of the Sofia District Department of the Interior Ministry. As I was a specialist in criminal and commercial cases, although I had completed 20 to 30 investigation cases for car accidents from moderate bodily injury to death, I called my colleague Georgi Tsenev who was on leave, but he was mainly assigned transportation cases . . And he had a postgraduate degree in traffic accident investigations in Moscow. He was at home and I told him that we were going to pick him up so he could come and help me with this highly responsible inspection.
I ring the bell and he yells at me: “I’m coming down, wait for me downstairs.” I get on the elevator, go down, and suddenly the elevator gets stuck between floors. “What if that’s not a sign!” I yell at myself. I died of anxiety. I started pushing back and forth and the elevator started up. Anyway, we got in the car, went to the place on the road and what did we see there? In the Vakarel area a car – a Peugeot from UBO (Department of Security, Today’s NSO – Author’s Note) – spent.
30-40 meters
off the canvas
on the freeway
On the right
I found one
Muscovite too
Suffered
in this catastrophe. The district attorney Pasha Delova, the district administration investigator – Ihtiman, Yordanka Georgieva arrived on the scene. She was there because the place is located in the Ihtiman area. My colleague Georgi Tsenev and Yordanka Georgieva also started the inspection. Measuring the distances, with photos, to make a report of the scene. We immediately found out what had happened.
Chief prosecutor Ivan Vachkov had released his official UBO driver so he could drive his official car. He was on vacation in Hissarya with his wife, who was the principal of the Eighth Secondary School on Shishman Street in the center of Sofia. On the day in question, the vacation was over. They are already returning to the capital by road. And in the area of Vakarel he began to overtake a Muscovite.
However, he is leaving too early to return to the right. He turns the wheel, pushes the Muscovite through the left door and directly down the ditch, throws him 30 meters to the right into the field.
The hand of the Muscovite’s driver was very swollen around the wrist. Maybe she was broken. His left hand, because his car had crashed there.
After the impact, the Peugeot began to turn on the highway. It is good that there were no other cars, so as not to grease. The chief prosecutor’s wife fell out of the car when she rolled over and broke her arm, which is a mild bodily injury. They immediately took her to the hospital, and when I went to the scene, I couldn’t find her. TO
of the boss
your prosecutor
there was none
absolutely nothing
He was standing there, visibly very worried. He was silent the entire time. It was stuffed. He seemed to take this catastrophe inside him. He was silent and we did our work.
What if it was the Attorney General?
He had already investigated CEOs, heroes of socialist labor. By causing trouble, the Attorney General will respond like all citizens. Ivan Vachkov did not interfere in any way, he did not tell us anything while we were doing our work on the spot.
At one point, the head of the All-Bulgaria Traffic Police approached me. A colonel, a tall man, asks me if we check him for alcohol. I said, “I don’t know, I came a little later, I’m going to go ask.” I turn to the deputy district chief and then to Rumen Deshev. I explain: “The chief of the traffic police asks me if he has checked the Attorney General for alcohol.” And Comrade Deshev says to me: “Tell him to go check it out!” The Katadzhii, because it was his job, never checked him for alcohol, but he obviously hadn’t used it. That was not the problem.
Ivan Vachkov was simply a bad driver. While we were inspecting, his UBO driver approached me, who was very angry about the wrecked car. He explained that Ivan
Vachkov cannot
drive and smash
already a second car
management
There were so many suits in the trunk of his car, as if he had been in Paris and was on vacation in Hissarya for about 20 days. Apparently he had gone to many meetings during the holidays because he had been invited by the people of the area. The trunk of the car was so big that I shared that I had never seen a trunk of a car like this: four people playing cards inside. The locals had given him many apples and they were scattered all over the asphalt after the accident.
District Attorney Pasha Delova was picking apples on the tarp. As the bodily injuries at the scene were moderate, the district administration investigated these cases. I’d take over the case if there was a death. But in this situation, the investigation was assigned to Ihtiman’s colleague, Yordanka Georgieva.
When there is no death, such a crime is not punishable by prison. The chief prosecutor had to receive a suspended sentence. However, no trial or verdict was reached.
Less than a year later, we learned that the Attorney General had died of cancer. All this happened to him out of concern for the accident. Apparently, he experienced it very hard: being the chief prosecutor and being investigated. Soon he got sick and left. She could not survive.
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