Prosecutors raid the presidency building, arrest two members of Roumen Radev’s staff
In an unprecedented move today, the Prosecutor’s Office, backed by police and special officers to the Prosecutor General, raided offices in the presidency building. Two members of President Roumen Radev’s staff have been arrested: his secretary, Plamen Uzunov and one of the president’s national security advisers, Iliya Milushev.
Uzunov is likely arrested in connection to another controversial and rather inexplicable campaign by the Prosecutor’s Office against the businessmen Plamen Bobokov, under investigation for influence trading. Bobokov was also arrested for the third time, but prosecutors have yet to bring official charges.
Milushev’s arrest is in connection with an investigation for uncovering state secrets.
Whatever the formal reasoning behind the raid and the arrests, their meaning likely lies elsewhere.
Several days ago,one of the leaders of the non-parliamentary opposition coalition Democratic Bulgaria, Hristo Ivanov together with two colleagues debarked on the Bulgarian beach Rosenec with a boat. The beach is state-public property, but access to it has been restricted for years. The reason – the summer mansion of the honorary leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms Ahmed Dogan. Dogan is arguably one of the most powerful people in Bulgaria and the self-described “allocator of the portions in the country,” as he once said publicly, meaning he had the final word on where public contracts end up. Media mogul and DPS MP Delyan Peevski is seen as his highest executive.
Uzunov is likely arrested in connection to another controversial and rather inexplicable campaign by the Prosecutor’s Office against the businessmen Plamen Bobokov, under investigation for influence trading. Bobokov was also arrested for the third time, but prosecutors have yet to bring official charges.
Milushev’s arrest is in connection with an investigation for uncovering state secrets.
Whatever the formal reasoning behind the raid and the arrests, their meaning likely lies elsewhere.
Several days ago,one of the leaders of the non-parliamentary opposition coalition Democratic Bulgaria, Hristo Ivanov together with two colleagues debarked on the Bulgarian beach Rosenec with a boat. The beach is state-public property, but access to it has been restricted for years. The reason – the summer mansion of the honorary leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms Ahmed Dogan. Dogan is arguably one of the most powerful people in Bulgaria and the self-described “allocator of the portions in the country,” as he once said publicly, meaning he had the final word on where public contracts end up. Media mogul and DPS MP Delyan Peevski is seen as his highest executive.
Източник: mediapool.bg
КОМЕНТАРИ