Balgarianovinite.com The government has adopted a package of legislative amendments aimed at establishing an effective and functional mechanism for investigating the prosecutor general, the Council of Ministers reported on Thursday. The package introduces mandatory judicial review of decisions to terminate or suspend criminal proceedings in a number of corruption cases involving individuals holding high public office.
The amendments are driven by the urgent need to take action to implement the commitments set out in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The purpose of the proposed changes is to introduce effective institutional oversight over the actions of the ad hoc prosecutor tasked with investigating the Prosecutor General or his or her deputies, oversight that has, in practice, been lacking to date.
The bill does not create a new mechanism, rather, it makes the existing one operational by addressing legislative gaps and introducing genuine safeguards for oversight.
The explanatory memorandum explicitly points to an “intolerable gap in the Criminal Procedure Code,” including references to a non-existent provision, which in practice has blocked the functioning of the mechanism. Amendments to the Judiciary Act provide that oversight will be exercised by a judge from the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Cassation (serving as supervising prosecutor), selected at random from a list approved by the Chamber’s General Assembly. The list is to include judges of the highest rank with substantial experience in criminal justice.
The supervising prosecutor’s powers will include reviewing the investigating prosecutor’s acts and decisions, issuing binding instructions, assessing the lawfulness and merits of procedural steps, and potentially reopening proceedings if new circumstances arise.
The supervising prosecutor will be appointed upon the opening of the proceedings, ensuring that the investigating prosecutor’s actions are subject to oversight at all times.
The draft foresees mandatory judicial review for the decision to discontinue criminal proceedings concerning offences allegedly committed by the prosecutor general.
Mandatory judicial review is also being introduced for the termination or suspension of criminal proceedings in a number of corruption cases involving people in senior public positions.
In addition, mandatory judicial review is introduced for decisions to terminate or suspend criminal proceedings in a range of corruption cases involving senior public officials.
The new regulations require that the court be notified, the review will cover both legality and merits. The requirement for an interested party to file a complaint in order to trigger judicial review is eliminated.
The explanatory memorandum emphasizes that under the current legal framework, in the absence of an interested party to initiate judicial review of prosecutorial warrants, the process is effectively hindered from progressing further. Cabinet Approves Reforms to Make Prosecutor General Investigation Mechanism Workable 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-04-16 19:22:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law