An investigation by the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GDCOC) against MP Delyan Peevski has concluded that there are suspicions of crimes, so his immunity should be waived in order to have a full investigation, „Sega“ reported. The GDCOC sent the file to the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office. The Ministry of Interior was approached against Peevski by the civil association BOETS (Fighter) in early January.
The procedure for lifting the MP’s immunity has started with a proposal of the supervising prosecutor to the Prosecutor General, who in turn must send a reasoned proposal to the National Assembly. Immunity is waived by a vote and a simple majority. At the same time, the MP may waive their immunity.
BOEC pointed out that they had presented data on transactions made by Delyan Peevski in recent years, through which he acquired assets worth millions, and the origin of the money is still not clear.
„From the owner of an old Opel in a few weeks at the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, Peevski turned into a multimillionaire, officially, without the origin of his funds being clear.„
The organization reminded that they had already referred the case to the Prosecutor’s Office once, but from there they refused to initiate an investigation.
In 2021 it became clear that Delyan Peevski is among the most scrutinized businessmen and politicians in our country, but more than 10 prosecutorial checks have concluded that he did nothing wrong. The civil association wants an investigation to be made on the origin of the money with which the MP bought the properties that became the subject of sale in the past few months of last year and the beginning of this year.
In June 2021, the United States imposed corruption sanctions on Peevski, Vasil Bozhkov and Ilko Zhelyazkov under the Magnitsky Act. Then the Prosecutor’s Office started an investigation on this occasion as well.
