Bulgaria Court Postpones Kujovic Case over Lack of Translator

In 2008, Kujovic was sentenced to 16 years in jail, and a BGN 220 000 fine for organizing and conducting drug trafficking. Photo by BGNES

The Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has postponed Thursday the case against the Serbian drug lord, Budimir Kujovic, over the lack of a Montenegrin-Bulgarian translator in the court room.

Despite the prosecutors' protest that Kujovic had been understanding written and spoken Bulgarian perfectly, so far the trial against him, Nikolay Paskov, Mihail Yankov, and Stoyko Doychev was postponed, Darik Radio reported.

The case was entered in court by the defendants, demanding their sentences to be repealed. They want to be discharged, or the case to be returned to first instance, over procedure violations.

In 2008, Kujovic was sentenced to 16 years in jail, and a BGN 220 000 fine for organizing and conducting drug trafficking. Nikolay Paskov has an effective 10 years sentence, and must pay a BGN 100 000 fine.

The other two have effective sentences of between 10 and 15 years, and must pay fines from BGN 100 000 to BGN 200 000.

 

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