site.btaProsecutor General Geshev Speaks at Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee

Addressing a meeting of the National Assembly Legal Affairs Committee here on Thursday, Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev said, on behalf of the Bulgarian prosecution service, that "it is consolidated and will continue to work in the same way, despite the political pressure, despite everything that is happening, in the interest of the people." "I will serve out my term in office as prosecutor general and will complete what I applied for when I ran for the office: that all perpetrators of crimes be imprisoned after enforceable convictions by the Bulgarian court," Geshev pointed out.

"For two years now the prosecution service has been warning about what is happening now: that we are going back to the years when mobsters dominated the scene as a result of the war against the judiciary, the attempts to capture the judiciary and deliberate wrecking of institutions, probably in the interest of what Bulgarian citizens call organized crime, mafia, oligarchy," the Prosecutor General commented. He argued that this is actually happening and it is obvious to all. 

Geshev repeated that he is not afraid and will not allow to be intimated. In his words, the magistrates community is not afraid, either.

"I will not be part of something that is a foregone conclusion and probably serves something I described as political mafia and that Bulgarian citizens describe as political mafia, political garbage, oligarchy and organized crime," the Prosecutor General said, adding that he will not tolerate being involved in "turning the state committed to the rule of law into a rag and handling the Constitution with greasy fingers," specifying that he was paraphrasing statements by experts in constitutional law.  

At the same meeting, Geshev said that the prosecution service has received an alert against Delyan Peevski, a controversial businessman and MP of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms.

Geshev added that another alert, against himself, has also been received. Both are being checked.