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The head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, Dimitar Frantisek Petrov, has resigned, BGNES reported.
His request was approved today at a meeting of the SJC tax board. Petrov has been appointed attorney general in the Special Prosecutor’s Office. One of its deputies returns to the same position.
The acting head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office will be Angel Iliev of VAP, the board also determined.
Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev, who headed the structure before Frantisek, told the Supreme Judicial Council that his successor in the special prosecutor’s office had achieved visible results, but “a problem arose that prevented him from concentrating on his job as chief and, by therefore, he resigned. “
The chief prosecutor developed a thesis on the “depreciation” of the magistrates, because “5-6 years is the period in which a magistrate can be useful in this prosecutor’s office.”
“There are specific details in the specialized prosecution, the risk is higher, such as being attacked by circles related to the accused, political interests, purely political attacks and media coverage, and there is depreciation. The workload is also high, the work it’s tough and Despite the established financial incentives, there are not a lot of people willing to work in this prosecutor’s office, which is understandable, “added Geshev, thanking Petrov for his work.
Staff without comment and unanimously voted for the resignation of one of the Frantisek deputies, Kiril Peichinov. He returns as a regular prosecutor, according to the de facto legal website.
Boss for less than a year
Frantisek headed the special prosecution on July 29, 2019, with no competitors for the position. Back in 2018 (when Geshev became Deputy Chief Prosecutor) he was acting chief administrative officer
As head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office, he actively participated in the activities related to the investigation of Vasil Bozhkov.
He had previously worked on a series of media reports, refusing to investigate the allegations made by Delyan Peevski in relation to the allegations of an MRF MP and a media mogul that certain people were conspiring to assassinate him. In the “Worm” case for abuse of SRS against the former president of the Sofia city court, Vladimira Yaneva, she received a suspended sentence of one year. It also dropped an investigation into Yanevagate’s records, which allegedly described inadmissible links between magistrates, businesses, and the government.
In 2018, Petrov was punished with “Attention” (the lightest disciplinary punishment) for a scandal involving him, recalls “Mediapool.” According to posts on Bivol’s website, the prosecutor hit a student who put him in the chat room at the school where his daughters study.
