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Romania must do more to deliver on respect for rule of law and judicial independence, having implemented some but not all the recommendations made in the annual Co-operation and Verification […]
Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) ruled to return to prosecutors the suit to seize the assets of the “Galevi Brothers” – Angel Hristov and Plamen Galev, who are not […]
Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has removed Plamen Dimitrov as Deputy Justice Minister and appointed him as the new chairperson of the asset forfeiture commission, the Cabinet’s media service said on […]
Rather than a detailed Co-operation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) report in writing, the European Commission would give the European Council an “oral update” on Bulgaria before the end of the […]
Sotir Tsatsarov was sworn in as Bulgaria’s prosecutor-general on January 10. In his first media statement after officially taking office, Tsatsarov said that he would seek to reform the prosecutor’s […]
Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council elected the head of Plovdiv Regional Court Sotir Tsatsarov as the next prosecutor-general on December 20, with 18 votes in favour, three against and three abstentions. […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at second reading on December 19 amendments to the Asset Forfeiture Act, the law regulating the confiscation of assets acquired through criminal activity first passed by MPs […]
Bulgarian prosecutor Galya Gougousheva, nominated for the vacant seat on the country’s Constitutional Court, has formally withdrawn her candidacy on December 11 amid calls for her to be investigated for […]
Galya Gougousheva, the only nominee for the vacant seat on Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court, has been alleged to have been involved in money laundering and using proxies to carry out commercial […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at first reading on December 7 amendments to the Asset Forfeiture Act, the law regulating the confiscation of assets acquired through criminal activity first passed by MPs […]
