site.btaEuropean Chief Prosecutor Withholds Details About Teodora Georgieva Until Procedures End

European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kovesi on Wednesday declined to present European Parliament (EP) committees with details of the case involving Bulgarian European prosecutor Teodora Georgieva because the procedures have not yet concluded.

Kovesi was heard by the EP Committees on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and on Budgetary Control to present the annual report of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO).

Teodora Georgieva was appointed European Prosecutor from Bulgaria in July 2020. In September 2025, the College of the EPPO initiated disciplinary proceedings against her, and in February 2026, she was found guilty of serious misconduct.

In reply to questions, Kovesi said that disciplinary proceedings had been initiated against Georgieva. “It was an internal procedure,” she said. “After that, we set up a panel, who made supplementary checks on the facts that we have identified, and in the end the conclusion was that there were three misconducts.”

Then, the EPPO College decided to ask the European Parliament, the EU Council and the European Commission about the procedure to dismiss Georgieva from her position. “I cannot explain more because two of these misconducts are related to operational information, they are related to some investigations ongoing. We will wait for this procedure to be finalized,” Kovesi said.

According to her, the EPPO had no connection with the detention of former Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borissov four years ago. She specified that at that time the Office had not been conducting an investigation.

Kovesi noted that in recent years, because of frequent elections in Bulgaria, the country has had several justice ministers, and this has had an effect.

“From the investigation side, we are doing our job, even if since EPPO started in Bulgaria, we didn’t fill all the positions for European delegated prosecutors,” she said. In her words, in Bulgaria today,18 EPPO investigations are at the judicial stage and there may be more convictions.

In her general statement, the European Chief Prosecutor noted that EPPO is investigating suspected fraud amounting to over EUR 45 billion from the European budget. Criminal organizations were uncovered that were draining the European budget; the scale of this fraud had been underestimated, Kovesi said.

She said she was not appointed to sweep problems under the carpet; she has worked so that the law would be applied equally to everyone and she has given her utmost. In her words, Andres Ritter, who will take over the EPPO leadership in the autumn, will maintain the work at the highest level.