The prosecution has come under unprecedented political and guerrilla pressure from President Rumen Radev. This was stated at an extraordinary briefing by Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev, who directly reproached the head of state for having become an ordinary Bulgarian politician since the transition after 1989.
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“Yesterday Radev said that the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office is a mafia. We are here to say that we will continue to work in the same way, because the pledge is the future of our children and our homeland. The prosecution is different. The time of double standards is over. We are here to say that we respect the Bulgarian institutions.”
The state prosecution does not hand down sentences, Geshev stressed. According to him, it is not a personnel problem of the prosecutor’s office that Plamen Uzunov received decisions of the Supreme Administrative Court before they were published and signed.
Geshev stressed that people want justice and that there are corrupt politicians in prisons, not just poor citizens. According to him, the only untouchable person in Bulgaria, according to the Constitution, is the president.
“Mr. Radev, I deliberately do not address him as President Radev, he must give a clear answer to the Bulgarian society, whether he knew or not about all the circumstances described by me. Does he want light or darkness in the presidential institution. As well as if he wants to point out to the Bulgarian citizens where in the Constitution and the laws of the country the immunity from criminal prosecution for crimes committed by employees of the presidency is regulated. The only untouchable is the president, so we will wait and respect the decision of the Constitutional Court on our issue concerning his immunity. Depending on him, we are ready to wait for the expiration of his term to establish the objective truth, including in the case in which all Bulgarian citizens most likely heard his voice to cover up an investigation against his wife by the Anti-Corruption Commission. Here I would ask another question – what would have happened if this had happened in France? What happened to a leading candidate for president of France that he had hired his wife?”
“We are working with evidence and it is not a problem for us to prosecute incumbent ministers, MPs, mayors, oligarchs and that is exactly why we are subjected to this unprecedented political attack. There are no untouchables for us, regardless of whether they are Peevski, Dogan, Borisov, Radev after the ruling of the Constitutional Court, of course, or some petty official from the presidential administration”, the chief prosecutor was quoted as saying by FOCUS.
The Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office and any other in the EU does not work and will not work by indicating who is guilty or not guilty, he added and announced that they will inform the EC, the EP and the embassies of EU member states about the unprecedented political pressure and outright attempts to “Destruction of the independence of the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office”.
