The Prosecutor’s Office sees no problem in the fact that Detelin Georgiev – a supervising prosecutor in the case of attempted murder with Novichok against Emilian Gebrev – is a fan of Putin and Russia. This became clear from publication of investigative journalist Hristo Grozev, who shared part of a decree refusing to initiate pre-trial proceedings after a signal from former Minister of Defense Boyko Noev.
BIRD also has the decree of Prosecutor Todor Denkov from the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office (Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office) Specialized Department. It says that there was no delay or inaction by the supervising prosecutor, and his public sympathy for Putin, Stalin and Russia was a matter of freedom of speech. Пълното съдържание на постановлението (факсимиле) по-долу, в края на текста.
But Detelin Georgiev is not the only prosecutor with sympathy for Moscow, nor is the Novichok case the only action of the GRU in our NATO country.
In the period 2011-2023, in addition to poisoning attempts, there were more than 10 explosions and attempts at sabotage at sites on the territory of Bulgaria, a member of NATO and the EU defense industry. On none of these breaches in national security, the actions of the Prosecutor’s Office have led to a result.
Corpulent “flocks”
The fact that teams of the Russian military intelligence GRU are walking around our country, blowing up ammunition depots and poisoning arms bosses, raises many questions about the state of our national security, the loyalty of our services, and, as can be seen, the state prosecution. After a long kick of the ball, pressed by the revelations of foreign services and Bellingcat’s investigations, the prosecutor’s office eventually charged in absentia (here and here
) Russian agents of the GRU, whom she herself was unable to reveal. Follow suspension of the investigation, interest, including from foreign media, and excuses from the Prosecutor’s Office. Subsequently, the Sofia City Court (SCC) restarted the case, but there is no indictment against the GRU officers to this day.
The question remains who were their Bulgarian “yataks”“. There is data on this topic, but there is no progress in the investigation.
Following the logic of cui bono (who benefits from it), the spotlight should be focused on persons who have interests in the arms business as competitors of Gebrev. However, there stands out the corpulent figure of MP Delyan Slavchev Peevski, sanctioned for corruption under the Magnitsky Act
. Както разкри разследване на Биволъ, базирано на Панамските досиета, адвокатът на Пеевски и негов настоящ parliamentary aide Sasho Angelov was the owner of the offshore company Viafot, which was trying to take control of one of the key assets of Corpbank, acquired by Gebrev – the Dunarit plant.
The Prosecutor’s Office is also involved in this battle. Prosecutor Nikolay Naydenov from the Social Assistance Agency is the one who pleaded for the financial director of the Dunarit arms factory – Nikola Kirov – to remain in custody (a total of 8 months). Naydenov is part of Tsatsarov’s special forces
and leading the strike brigade in Peevski’s attempts to acquire the plant. As a reward, he was promoted to the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office. A lesser-known fact is that he is also a “Russian graduate” and in 2018 he was trained at the prosecutor’s office in Russia.
Another operationally interesting “yatak” is the arms dealer Dobrin Ivanov, close to GERB and Peevski, owner of the Bulgarian franchise of Euronews TV.
His company with the emblematic name “DP” joined the battle for “Dunarit” by coordinating its actions with Peevski’s offshore company “Viafot”. An investigation by Bivol, based on documents from the US Financial Intelligence Agency (FINCEN), found that the company Transmobil, owned by Ivanov, received large sums from an offshore company related to money laundering in the Magnitsky scheme.
Transmobil is also listed in a Bellingcat investigation alleging that it exported arms products to Syria, but the company’s name was changed to Gebrev’s Emko in the documentation. Why this was done is a key question. The arms exports to the US-funded Free Syrian Army come at a time when Russia supports the Assad regime. One possible explanation is that Gebrev was deliberately maligned and turned into a target of the Russians.
But the prosecutor’s office is silent about all this. Neither the offshore transaction nor the replacement of documentation is being investigated.
Briefing by Russian prosecutors with epaulettes
As We have revealed earlier, prosecutor Detelin Georgiev -fan of Russia, Putin and Stalin – investigates poisoning attempts on arms manufacturer Emilian Gebrev, his son and director of Emko in 2015. In May 2018 Prosecutor Georgiev is on Study visit in Moscow together with Ivan Geshev.
Another prosecutor, Nikolay Naydenov, who was trained in Russia, is actively involved in the battle for the Dunarit arms factory on the side of Peevski against Gebrev.
BIRD was able to establish that at least Five military prosecutors Were of training and “Instructional” to Moscow, in the period 2015-2019. Veselin Stoev, colonel Nivelin Nachevcolonel Emil Angelovprosecutor Evgenia Shtarkelova – became famous for “Sprinkler” in front of the parliament, Rumen Boev – former member of the SJC and former (before 2000) military investigator and military prosecutor. After it was OrderedProsecution Reported A total of 15 prosecutors trained in cooperation programme between the prosecutor’s offices of Bulgaria and Russia.
Military prosecutor Colonel Nivelin Nachev was in May 2019 at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, in Moscow, for a “briefing” on anti-corruption issues. Тогава той е зам.-шеф на Военно-апелативната прокуратура (ВоАП), след това For a short time I.F. administrative head, now a prosecutor in the same prosecutor’s office. In July 2020, Colonel Nachev was approved by the Prosecutor’s College of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) to participate in the procedure of the European External Action Service (EEAS) for the selection of seconded experts to the EU Advisory Mission for Civilian Security Sector Reform in Ukraine (EUAM Ukraine).
In December 2023, Nachev was seconded by Acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov for 6 months to the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office (SCP) now (VP).
As a major and prosecutor from the Military Appellate Prosecutor’s Office, Nivelin Nachev led the probe into the leakage of state secrets from the State Agency for National Security in the “Gallery” case in 2008.
The delegation to Moscow in May 2019 was led by another military prosecutor – Brigadier General Veselin Stoev – former head of the Military Appellate Prosecutor’s Office (03/2015 – 03/2020), current prosecutor at the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office – Sofia. This is his second “briefing” in Moscow, the first (details below) was in 2015. Stoev was awarded the senior officer rank in May 2018 by the President – General Rumen Radev.
Together with military prosecutors General Stoev and Colonel Nachev, in May 2019, prosecutor Ivaylo Medarov, then deputy. Head of the District Prosecutor’s Office – Sofia, months later promoted to the Supreme Administrative Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).
One of the investigations monitored by District Prosecutor Ivaylo Medarov is the serious accident with 6 victims and more than 20 injured, in which a bus of the company Union Ivkoni, associated with a former GERB MP, overturned in the ditch of the Trakia highway after being hit by a car in 2018. after a previous accident again with an overturned bus on “Ivkoni” on the “Trakia” highway. In this case, only the driver of the car that caused the accident was convicted.
At training in Russia in October 2018, is the former deputy head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office and current military prosecutor Evgenia Shtarkelova, who became famous for the “sprinklers” in front of the parliament. Earlier, in May 2018 in Moscow, she also attended a a working visit to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia together with the then Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev and Prosecutor Detelin Georgiev, investigating the Novichok attack.
Tsatsarov’s first envoys in Moscow
From a message from the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia from April 2015, which BIRD was able to find, it becomes clear that five Bulgarian prosecutors, led by Deputy Prosecutor General Penka Bogdanova, were sent by Sotir Tsatsarov for a “briefing” in Moscow. Темата е “Мястото, ролята и компетентността на прокуратурите на Руската Федерация и Република България. Правомощия на прокурорите в Русия и България”.
From left to right: (1) Prosecutor Rumen Popov, then head of the Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office, since June 2019. Deputy Chief of the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office – Plovdiv; (2) Maria Shishkova, a former judge in Plovdiv, then Deputy Prosecutor General, in 2019 he resigned and became an ordinary prosecutor in the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, in 2020 he was appointed Assigned Deputy Head of the Plovdiv District Court, and from 2022 to the present day he has been judge in the Administrative Court of Sofia-city; (3) Penka Bogdanova leading the delegation, then Deputy Prosecutor General, previously a Plovdiv Appellate Prosecutor, subsequently and to this day an ordinary prosecutor in the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office; (4) Military Prosecutor Veselin Stoev, then Colonel, newly appointed Head of the Military Appellate Prosecutor’s Office (March 2015 – March 2020), and as we revealed above, currently holds the rank of Brigadier General and Prosecutor at the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office – Sofia. (5) recognized by a source in the prosecutor’s circles as Emil Vladimirov, since then and until now, a prosecutor in the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office.
First (and last?) class of Bulgarian prosecutors at the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of Russia in Moscow
As we have already revealed in our previous publication, 6 (six) Bulgarian prosecutors are among the ‘first class‘ retrained at the “University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation” to Moscow. We remind you of the photo from October 16, 2018.
From left to right foreground: (1) Slavka Slavova, retired in 2019 as a prosecutor at the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office; (2) Prosecutor Nikolay Hristov, then the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office, now the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office; (3) Colonel Emil Angelov, Graduate Military University in Moscow, former head of the Military District Prosecutor’s Office in Plovdiv, Retired in 2023; (4) Evgenia Shtarkelova – became famous for the “sprinklers” in front of the parliament, former deputy head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office and current military prosecutor; (5) Yuri Ponomarev – Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia; (6) Oksana Kapinus – Rector of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of Russia; (7) Prosecutor Nikolay Naydenov – former Deputy Head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office of Appeal (SAA), now the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office; (8) Rumen Boev – a former member of the SJC and a former (before 2000) military investigator and prosecutor, Retired in 2020 as Deputy Head of the AP-Plovdiv.
In the background you can see the Russian hosts from left to right: (4) Natalia Koval – Dean of the Faculty, (5) Nina Shalumova – Vice-Rector of the University.
With this, the BIRD survey reveals the names of all 15 Bulgarian prosecutors who were trained in Russia for the period 2015-2019. Even after the Prosecutor’s Office has convicted under the Access to Public Information Act (APIA) by announcing (see the table in the announcement) only the total number – 15 prosecutors and distribution by year: 5 in 2015, 7 in 2018 and 3 by mid-2019.
Euro-Atlanticists, but is it?
In May this year, the Prosecutor’s Office boasted with a message that Acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov was awarded an honorary diploma of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. The diploma was never shown! We also found out that it was agreed that Bulgarian investigators would be sent to the trainings at the FBI Academy. Това става 20 години след влизането на България в НАТО (29 март 2004) и 17 години след приемането ни в Европейския съюз (1 януари 2007).
Until recently, however, prosecutors were sent for training at the Academy of the Prosecutor’s Office of Russia. Към днешна дата българската прокуратура и службите не могат да се похвалят с никакви успехи в разкриването на саботажните акции – взривове и отровителство. Not a single local “yatak” has been investigated. The reluctance to work on these important cases is also evident in the letter
, whereby the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office half-heartedly agreed to meet with an investigative team from the Czech Republic working on explosions in the handwriting of the GRU. Colleagues from Prague are warned that there is no money to welcome them in Bulgaria and if they can bring an interpreter.
Lead photo: Acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov (in the middle, photo PRB, 2024), an emblem of the Prosecutor’s Office with the Bulgarian flag and the EU flag (left), an official map and epaulettes of the paramilitary Russian prosecutors (right). Collage: BIRD.BG
Материалът Delyan Peevski, Dobrin Ivanov … – The Bulgarian “feats” of the Russian bombers in Bulgaria are /not/ being investigated е публикуван за пръв път на BIRD.
