Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Nikolay Kokinov, the Sofia Chief Prosecutor, has announced that formal charges have been brought against Tsvetelin Kanchev, leader of the Euroroma union. He will be kept in custody for 72 hours. Together with Kanchev, four other detainees, including Roma leader Hristo Varbanov-Papata (the Pope), have also been charged. ...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Nikolay Kokinov, the Sofia Chief Prosecutor, has announced that formal charges have been brought against Tsvetelin Kanchev, leader of the Euroroma union. He will be kept in custody for 72 hours. Together with Kanchev, four other detainees, including Roma leader Hristo Varbanov-Papata (the Pope), have also been charged. ...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The Bulgarian State Prosecutor's office has charged the head of the Communications Regulation Commission with failure to discharge his obligations. Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov, announced on Tuesday that the head of CRC, Veselin Boykov, was to be charged with failure to implement a decision made by the Supreme Administrative Court, namely to issue a license to the Radio...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Sofia Chief Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov, has reported that surveillance cameras will be placed throughout the Sofia City Court due to a fake judge who has been taking money from citizens in order to ‘decide’ cases in their favor. Kokinov stated that a man disguised as a judge frequents the corridors of the Court and takes money from citizens against a promise to decide...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Petkov Sertov, former director of the National State Security Agency (DANS), is expected to be probed by prosecutors over missing classified reports on crime, together with former Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev. "There will be most probably two defendants in that case," Sofia City prosecutor Nikolay Kokinov announced on Wednesday. The case will set a precedent in Bulgarian...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Chief Sofia City Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov, stated Wednesday that it is too early to tell whether former Bulgaria PM Sergey Stanishev will end up in jail. Kokinov said that along with Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev, they had prepared a request to parliament for Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Stanishev to give up his MPs legal immunity on Tuesday. He added that this will...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office is going to demand that one Member of Parliament be stripped of his immunity over the investigation of a recently leaked top secret intelligence report. This was announced Tuesday noon by the Sofia City Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov, who said the demand had been submitted formally to Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev. Kokinov did not mention explicitly...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Bulgaria's prosecutor's office has denied reports that it plans to turn to European Union experts in a bid to push through the trial of Bulgaria's mobster brothers, Krassimir and Nikolay Marinov. “I have already sent letters to the Alexandrovska hospital, the hospital of the Interior Ministry and the Military Medical Academy with a request to pick experts,” Sofia city prosecutor...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Also Wednesday, the Sofia City Prosecutor, Nikolay Kokinov, stated that there has not been any ransom demands yet and advised the family to not act without informing the authorities, while Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, said he did not have any new information regarding the case.
