After an Investigation by Nova: Will There be Penalties for Fake Certificates in Bulgaria

An investigation by Bulgarian Media "Nova" has uncovered a large-scale scheme to issue green certificates to unvaccinated people. One of them costs 450 leva. False documents are received in just two days. According to an intermediary, between 15 and 30 false certificates are issued per day by only one doctor.

The surprise is that the mediator is a candidate for MP. It is he who communicates with Nova's news team in the certificate trading scheme. A reaction from the prosecutor's office followed. A spokesman for the chief prosecutor said the MP's immunity would be sought to be investigated. And the party, from whose lists he is a candidate, promised to expel him today.

The mediator, who introduced himself as Velichko Georgiev, is a Member of Parliament, explained the director of the National Police, Chief Commissioner Stanimir Stanev. As far as he is informed, the Prosecutor General has requested that his immunity be lifted. The Nova team found out about the scheme from the businessman Andrey Bachvarov.

"My friend is gone. A man with a fake certificate turned out to be positive for Covid, he infected my friend who had diabetes and he passed away," Bachvarov said.

Andrey himself first contacted Velichko, posing as an employer who wanted to obtain certificates for his employees. It is agreed that Andrei will send photos of the ID cards of three of his employees at first. For the purpose of the investigation, Andrei introduced a reporter as his employee. It is clear from the conversations that Velichko works with an older sister, who is in the mobile points in the malls at the weekend, and in the polyclinic during the week.

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