Bulgaria Chief Prosecutor Suggests Ex Ministers Will Face Justice

Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor Velchev and Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov (right) have now both suggested that former Ministers will face embezzlement charges soon. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria Chief Prosecutor, Boris Velchev, has stated that it is possible that former Ministers and Deputy Ministers will be charged and sentenced for embezzlement of funds over the coming days.

Velchev stated; "the Prosecutor's office is completely independent but it the signals for embezzlement against former ministers and other high-ranking state officials have come from the new government," the Bulgarian Standart daily newspaper reported Friday.

He questioned criticism of the new center-right GERB governments approach by asking; "Is it possible to blame a political power for her right to start its term of office in the daylight? This behaviour is rational and well-grounded and even more, it is useful."

Velchev continued by saying that there is no political witch-hunt against the previous socialist led tri-partite government but he suggested that if there are witches, they should be seized. He refused to state how many former Ministers had been questioned.

Velchev concluded that all state institutions have been to blame for frauds involving EU funding and that EU criticism was well founded and deserved. He said that the Prosecutor's office had failed to reveal cases of corruption in the top echelons of power, something they are now trying to put right.

 

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