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Bulgaria’s Government held a special sitting at the weekend to discuss and approve a bill of amendments to the Penal Procedure Code, which would create an inspectorate for the prosecutor’s […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev signed on November 26 the decree formally appointing Ivan Geshev as the country’s Prosecutor-General, after his ...
The parties in Bulgaria’s government coalition nominated on November 19 outgoing prosecutor-general Sotir Tsatsarov as head of the Commission fo ...
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on November 7 that he would not sign the decree appointing Ivan Geshev as the country’s next prosecutor-ge ...
Thousands of Bulgarians took part in a September 25 protest march in Sofia, the third in succession, against the sole nominee to be the country’s next Prosecutor-General, Ivan Geshev. The […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov expressed support on May 17 for Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov’s request to the State Agency for National Security to provide information on the undeclared offshore holdings […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament passed on December 20 at second reading amendments to the country’s anti-corruption legislation that will allow court to proceed with asset forfeiture lawsuits in cases without a criminal […]
The European Commission published on November 19 a call for applications for the position of European Chief Prosecutor at the European Public Prosecutor’s office. The selected candidate will be the […]
Bulgaria’s hopes of exiting European Commission monitoring under the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) next year were given a boost on November 13, when the EC’s latest report noted a […]
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court swore in four new judges on November 13, with Pavlina Panova, Nadezhda Djelepova, Krassimir Vlahov and Atanas Semov taking their seats in a ceremony attended by Bulgarian […]
