Balgarianovinite.com A former employee of Varna’s Primorski Borough administration has been detained on charges of document fraud in a pre-trial investigation led by the Varna Regional Prosecution Office (RPO) into the issuance of building tolerance certificates containing false information, the Varna Appellate Prosecution Office said on Friday. The 70-year-old man has been charged under the Criminal Code with drawing up an official document certifying false facts or statements.
The suspect has been detained for up to 72 hours pending a court hearing to determine his pre-trial detention measure, the RPO said. The man, identified by the initials V.K., is accused that between May and July 2023, while acting in his official capacity in Primorski Borough and in the course of a continuing offence, drew up building tolerance certificates attesting falsely that 20 residential buildings of various sizes had been constructed before March 31, 2001, on three land plots in the Baba Alino area, the prosecution added.
The Baba Alino area near Varna is associated with recent disclosures of illegal construction of a complex of residential buildings. Tolerance certificates make private and public buildings constructed before 2001 without the requisite papers to be tolerated for the purposes of occupation or real estate transactions.
In the case reported on Friday, the Varna Regional Court has received a prosecution request to remand the 70-year-old V.K. in custody.
Investigative activities are continuing in the newly publicized case, the RPO said. Investigators have carried out numerous procedural measures, including searches and seizures at the offices of Varna Municipality’s Primorski Borough administration and at private addresses. Witnesses have been questioned.
The first searches began on June 25. A day later, acting Interior Ministry Secretary General Lyubomir Nikolov said police had detained five employees of the Primorski Borough administration and 20 owners of properties in the city suspected of being illegally constructed.
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