Prosecution

Next Monday, Supreme Court President Vassiliki Thanou will preside over a judicial council that will decide who will replace Eleni Raikou, the country's top corruption prosecutor who resigned last month. 

Raikou's second term as chief corruption prosecutor had been due to end on May 11. 

There is no legal option for the extradition of Bulgarian citizens in Turkey due to the indictment act served to them on charges of manslaughter, stated Bulgaria's Prosecutor's Office.

Bulgaria's prosecutors made it clear that the border policemen which turned out to have been indicted in Turkey because of an incident nine years ago will not be handed over for trial in Turkey.

Prosecutors filed charges against a municipal officer in Decan/Decani who is accused of using hate speech during a meeting with war-displaced Serbs and Montenegrins from the municipality.

I feel very uncomfortable, I must confess, whenever someone I know confides in me that they would like to get involved in politics or public life in general.

An investigator has filed a BGN 26 000 claim against Borislav Sarafov, the Deputy Chief Prosecutor over alleged "pressure" on him.

Strahil Kamenichki, who works at the National Investigation Service, allegedly spoke to Sarafov at a work meeting.

Some 129 suspects, including the mayor of the Aegean province of İzmir Aziz Kocaoğlu, were acquitted of corruption charges on Feb. 27, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The suspects, who were being tried without arrest, were charged in relation to "corruption in tenders" and "establishing a criminal organization," but were acquitted in the case's 30th hearing. 

A court has accepted an indictment prepared against Turkish fashion designer Barbaros Şansal and has said his trial would be held on March 16. 

The court has ordered for the continuation of Şansal's detention and demanded one to three years in jail over charges of "inciting hatred and hostility among the public." 

The team of prosecutors and investigators of the Specialised Prosecutor's Office on the pre-trial proceedings of KTB have completed actions on the investigation.

18 people have been indicted, and final and precise indictments described in over 5,000pages have been presented to every single indicted person.

Prosecutors have demanded to reverse the judgement of a court in the case of two girls who received at least 10 years in prison over the murder of their mother in the Aegean province of İzmir in 2013. 

The legal suit against Sergey Stanishev for seven confidential reports lost by him while he was Prime Minister in the period 2005 - 2009 is about to be terminated.

The Prosecutor's Office and Stanishev's lawyer demanded that the Sofia Appellate Court terminate the suit because it became void by prescription a few days ago.