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The first verdict of the quick vote-buying process was announced today by the Prosecutor’s Office. From there, they provided other data on the trade in the vote.
According to information from Nova TV, a man from the city of Gorni Dabnik received an 11-month probation sentence with a 3-year probationary period, after it was established that he was a vote trader. Investigators found that he had offered sums of BGN 50 and 1,000 to two people to vote for a particular party or coalition. The man has confessed and after the sentence he has no right to hold an elected position for 2 years.
This is what the Prosecutor’s Office told the media about the crimes detected on election day: “A sentence of 11 months in” prison “suspended with a three-year probationary period and a penalty of deprivation of the right to occupy an elected office for two years served by the prosecution A person prosecuted in a fast track pretrial process for offering a property benefit in order to persuade him to exercise the right to vote in favor of a particular candidate, political party or coalition.
Since the beginning of the electoral campaign, until 1:00 p.m. on April 4, 2021, a total of 445 files and 33 pre-trial proceedings have been initiated throughout the country. They contain data and evidence of offering property benefits to vote for a particular candidate, political party or coalition, to damage the property of political parties and campaign materials, as well as to make threats and vandalism.
By Appeal Areas, the pre-trial process is distributed as follows: AP – Sofía – 15; AP-Plovdiv-8; AP – Varna – 2; AP – Burgas – 1; AP – Veliko Tarnovo – 7.
Eleven people were brought in as defendants. Three of them were placed in preventive detention.
On election day, two pre-trial proceedings were started against people for trying to exercise the right to vote with false identity documents and voting certificates. A pre-trial process has been initiated against a defender of a political party for vandalism.
A person wanted by the Indonesian authorities has been identified in an Interpol red bulletin for “money laundering” and use of a foreign payment instrument through a skimming device. Offered property benefits for the purpose of voting. Pre-trial proceedings have been initiated, in which numerous investigative actions have been carried out: searches, searches and confiscations of addresses and vehicles. Campaign materials from a political party, lists of names of defenders, disks and computer peripherals related to the electoral process were found and seized. Four more people involved in criminal activity have been identified, ”the Prosecutor’s Office told the media.
