site.btaProsecutor General Denies Breach of Duties

Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev sent a statement to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on Tuesday, in which he said that he had not committed any breach of his duties. He specified that he had not given any instructions to investigators working on the case with the explosion near his car on May 1, and added that an Israeli expert had not been involved in the investigation and was not allowed at the scene of the incident.

Geshev's response was in response to a request by six members of the SJC for his early dismissal.

Attached to Geshev's statement are documents, which indicate that from the end of April until May 17, first Krasimira Filipova and then Borislav Sarafov were acting as Prosecutor General during Geshev's absence.

According to Geshev, it is difficult to understand the six members of the SJC's allegation of serious misconduct, as this is a question of mixing the powers of the Prosecutor General as a separate state body and those as the administrative head of the prosecutor's office without clarity and specificity. He stated that the request for his removal refers to texts in the Criminal Procedure Code that have no relation to the duties of the Prosecutor General.

Geshev's statement concludes that while the duties of the Prosecutor General were delegated to another person on the date of the incident, Geshev would not have committed a violation, even if he was on the job, as being a participant in the explosion gave him the status of a victim.