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An open letter – a signal about the actions and involvement of the Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev in the whole case and the “Ivancheva” case – was sent to the President of the European Commission, to the EU Commissioners Vera Yourova and Didier Reinders, as well as to the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs LIBE. The signal was also addressed to the EU Attorney General, Laura Coveschi.
This was announced for Frog News by Dr. Petar Kardzhilov, who is the initiator and author of the open signal letter. It describes in detail the actions of Ivan Geshev in the case as head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office in 2018. The details indicate violations found during the trials and in a series of publications in the media in Bulgaria.
The case of Ivancheva and Petrova is emblematic and unprecedented in the history of Bulgaria and Europe. This case is a living example of how specialized judicial institutions, recently created by an extremely vicious government, can function only in the service of this vicious government and its oligarchic circles, destroying civil society and democracy, and ominously trampling the rule of law. , even for committing brutal crimes against living people for which no one can investigate and punish them.
Ivan Geshev’s tenure as chief prosecutor is not just a shame, as we have been chanting in the protests for the resignations of Borisov and Geshev for three months. Keeping this person in this position is extremely dangerous for citizens, democracy and the rule of law in Bulgaria!
I ask you on behalf of civil society in Bulgaria and on your own behalf, immediately suspend all European funding for Bulgaria until Geshev and Borisov resign and are tried for their crimes until we can restore the rule of law in our country.
As there is no institution, body or prosecutor in Bulgaria that can accuse, investigate and bring the Attorney General to justice, I am personally alerting him on my behalf of the existence of a sufficiently stable and seriously substantiated complaint of official crimes and crimes committed by the Attorney General. against justice in his capacity as administrative head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office at the beginning of 2018.
It is a reasonable suspicion that Mr. Ivan Geshev committed a crime of defamation, bribery, official crimes and crimes against justice in the investigation, in the brutal and spectacular twelve-hour detention, as well as in the pre-trial process for the charge of solicitation and receipt of bribes. , filed by the Special Prosecutor’s Office under the direction of Mr. Geshev against the former mayor of the Mladost district of the capital, Mrs. Desislava Ivancheva, and his deputy, Mrs. Bilyana Petrova,.
Ten points list facts that became known during and during the trial.
“For all these events, as well as many others, there is evidence and witnesses that we are willing to provide in the event that a body is found for an investigation. From these events it is clear and indirect that the current Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev, as Administrative Head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, he has headed an organized criminal group that organized the indictment of the independent civil mayors of the Mladost district for demanding and accepting bribes. This happened with the knowledge, order and cooperation of the highest party officials. GERB, ”Satva clearly said in the text.
Here is the entire open letter:
Letter-Signal-to-EC-and-EP-05.10.2020
