Supreme Judge 'Welfare' Daughter 'Gives up' Scandalous Hotel

Last Tuesday, the Chair of the Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court (VAS) Konstantin Penchev dismissed three senior judges over an emerging corruption scandal. Photo by BGNES.

The municipal council in the Black Sea town and resort of Primorsko held an emergency meeting about the case involving the real estate scandal around the daughter of a supreme judge.

The Thursday meeting came on the heels of an investigative report of the Bulgarian weekly “Kapital” which revealed that three senior judges from the Supreme Administrative Court (VAS) helped close relatives to obtain beach-front real estate property in Primorsko thanks to their acquired status of people on social benefits.

“Kapital” wrote how Denitsa Urumova, who is a Junior Judge at the Blagoevgrad District Court, and daughter of the VAS judge, Nikolay Urumov, is building a hotel in Primorsko, for which she obtained the construction permit by pretending to be on welfare.

Urumova had sent a letter to the Primorsko Town Hall offering to transfer the 5-story hotel to them or pay the real market value.

The Chair of the Primorsko City Hall, Plamen Georgiev, voiced his indignation because the letter did not include any contact information about where and how Urumova could be reached while her colleagues had refused to give her phone number.

The municipal councilmen say the letter is just e legal trick that might be used in the upcoming court trials as an official document showing how the VAS judge's daughter is giving up the hotel, but the Town Hall failed to undertake any action.

Georgiev vowed to sent a certified letter requesting a meeting if he is unable to reach Urumova by the end of the day.

The father, Nikolay Urumov, is probed for bribery and was dismissed as the head of the Third Department of VAS

Last week, the VAS Chair, Konstantin Penchev, also fired the other two VAS judges involved in the scandal: Panayot Genkov was removed from office as the Head of the “First A” Department of VAS; and Judge Andrey Ikonomov was fired from the head position of the Fifth Department of VAS.

In addition, relatives of the former Appellate Prosecutor of Burgas, Yordan Ivanov, and of the Head of the Sofia Appellate Court, Veselin Pengezov, have also received building permits.

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