Deputy Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov has filed a report against Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev, the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office. The report alleges three crimes committed by Geshev:
– For making an illegal telephone recording with the member of the SJC Yordan Stoev;
– For embezzlement and official crime for the villa in Borovets;
– That he influenced the supervising prosecutor in the „Barcelonagate“ case.
Yesterday, Sarafov stated at a briefing that the Prosecutor General has turned the rest base of the Prosecutor’s Office in the Borovets winter resort into a private villa. The Regent’s Villa is an iconic house where scenes from the movie ‘Tobacco’ were filmed.
„It is an official rest base of the prosecutor’s office, but none of the magistrates have access to it, because Geshev privatized it for his own use, and he uses the employees there as his personal servants,“ Sarafov added.
According to another of the signals – the „Barcelonagate“ affair, Ivan Geshev announced at his yesterday’s briefing that he had received a message from a fellow prosecutor who told him that “Mr. Sarafov told someone who he was, who told someone -who are you who told him that he had to close the Barcelonagate case by Friday (last Friday)”. The chief prosecutor replied that he was not aware of this and had notified the supervising prosecutor from the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office, as the case was under special supervision, who explained that the case could not be completed until September or the end of the year.
The third circumstance that Sarafov wants to be checked is an unregulated record of a member of the Supreme Judicial Council. It is about a telephone conversation that the chief prosecutor, Sarafov claims, recorded, which, according to him, is an unregulated recording. Geshev himself has already said that in recent days he had multiple conversations with senior representatives of the judicial system, with whom he discussed the attacks against him. He also mentioned a specific conversation with a member of the judicial council, without mentioning his name, quoting him as saying:
“I called a member of the SJC when I found out that the prosecutor’s collegium wanted my resignation. He said to me, I have not read the decree against you, they gave it to me. Just so you can resign or be fired. But, you know better… you have a family.”
