Geshev is obliged to get rid of organized criminal group, gave Buyuk to Erdogan – Analysis

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The businessman Abdullah Buyuk, who was handed over to the Turkish authorities four years ago, accused of being close to the Fethullah Gulen organization, has filed a lawsuit against our country. A few days ago, an investigation by the German magazine SPIEGEL recalled his case, claiming that Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and former Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov, in violation of international conventions, helped Turkey prosecute opponents of President Erdogan after the attempt. 2016 coup. According to BNR, lawyer Mikhail Ekimdzhiev commented on the case.

The basic facts were clear even then. On August 10, 2016, at a rally of several thousand in Istanbul to mark the victory over the attempted coup, then-Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced that one of Turkey’s and Erdogan’s enemies was hiding in Bulgaria. , but the Bulgarian authorities promised to return it.

Literally hours, not days, not weeks, hours after this statement, Abdullah Buyuk was “presented” to the Turkish authorities at the Bulgarian border by our high ranking police officers, in violation of the constitution, the Human Rights Convention, the UN security conventions. political asylum.

So I thought that this was a spontaneous decision of Boyko Borissov, who without a doubt, we know his past, knows how to load a man in a car and kidnap him, and then drive to the border. But in this case he had

the need for people to give some legal appearance, an illusion of legality.

And how is this done? Months earlier, a Bulgarian court had twice refused to extradite Buyuk at the request of the Turkish authorities. In a state governed by the rule of law, this is the end of the matter. But not here. Apparently advised by his lawyers, and there is a main suspect, also mentioned by the letters in SPIEGEL, Borisov decides otherwise. But before him, then-Vice President Margarita Popova stepped in and denied Buyuk political asylum.

Then the so-called “covert extradition” takes place, in which in the form of expulsion, without the request of Turkey, for some internal reasons, we remove a foreigner from our borders. This is what Lukashenko’s junta in Belarus is doing right now: the main opposition leaders are being captured, loaded into cars and taken out, most often on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.

While in Bulgaria, Turkey refused to extend the validity of his documents and Abdullah Buyuk’s stay in Bulgaria was formally made illegal. But keep in mind that there is

a convention that prohibits the expulsion of a person when there is a risk that he will be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment in his country.

And then there is clear evidence from Amnesty International that the Turkish authorities tortured, raped and killed political prisoners.

However, our government acts almost like an organized criminal group, in which the Prime Minister, the Attorney General, the Minister of the Interior, high-ranking officials of the Ministry of the Interior and the Vice President participate.

But even if we assume that there were some formal grounds for the expulsion, what has been done must be done by notifying your lawyer, at the time of your arrest, by notifying the ombudsman and by notifying an NGO. They are mandatory rules of law, which in this case have been violated.

Buyuk was loaded like an animal into a car and sacrificed to an Asian satrap.

That is what our country has done. I am not saying Boyko Borissov, because there are about a dozen people involved, high-ranking state officials. And because Mr. Geshev says there will be no untouchables, here, Mr. Geshev, you have a brilliant reason for unraveling a group that has all the data to be classified as an organized criminal group. There is a preliminary plan, there is a distribution of roles, there is a hierarchy in the group, the authority of the state is discredited. And what has been done bears the marks not only of a crime committed in the line of duty, but even of some members of Chapter One of the Penal Code for espionage and treason. Because people of high rank are de facto in the service of a foreign state in violation of the norms of European law and the Bulgarian constitution.

With his usual Byzantine flair, Tsatsarov tries to get off the tangent, performing naive theater. Yes, he did not formally participate in the process. But something else comes out of the grams. There it was noted that Borisov had promised a quick solution to the problem and that Tsatsarov would personally deal with it. I can’t say, but knowing Mr. Tsatsarov’s style, this justifies my assumption that this is very likely to happen. Because Mr. Tsatsarov liked to go beyond his powers, to jump into foreign waters, just to act as he wanted. Separately, that in his case

They probably offered you an offer that you just couldn’t refuse.

I mean to help informally in this criminal act.

Here is evidence of serious crimes. And if the “Eight Dwarves” and Vladislav Goranov are a low target for the “instrument of God”, as he defined himself, here are worthy targets. There is a prime minister, there is a former chief prosecutor and head of the anti-corruption commission, there is a former vice president, a former interior minister.

Mr. Geshev, show that you are independent. Investigate serious crimes that discredit Bulgaria. That is what you have to do.