An indictment of Kiril Petkov is being prepared, lawyer Mihail Ekimdzhiev predicts
On Monday, former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who spent 24 hours in custody before being released without charge last night, he will refer the case to the prosecutor’s office against the Prime Minister Kiril Petkov. This was said by Borisov’s lawyer Menko Menkov to bTV. Borissov’s complaint will be that Petkov committed an official crime surrounding his arrest, the lawyer said.
According to Menkov the press conference that Petkov and Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov gave just before midnight yesterday, it was “a paradoxical way to present evidence to the media about your own criminal activities”. Menkov explained that the investigating police officers were independent and that even their immediate superiors could not give them any instructions. And during a briefing last night, Rashkov said investigating police officers were waiting on the second floor of the Council of Ministers.
Rashkov and Petkov do not have the authority to give instructions, the lawyer continued. According to him, in the office of the Prime Minister there was a meeting between him, Deputy Prime Minister Asen Vassilev and Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov with all investigating police officers working on the case. They gave instructions and wondered what to do to detain Borissov, Menkov said. According to him, such a meeting took place because Petkov did not deny it.
Menkov called his client an “icon” and said he had never allowed himself to do such a thing, omitting how Borisov used the operative to gather the chief prosecutor, then Sotir Tsatsarov, and chiefs of services every week.
The lawyer continued that the extortion case began with the testimony of Prime Minister Petkov, who offered himself as a witness without actually being one. Menkov reiterated that actions against members of the Council of Ministers could be carried out only by investigators, but not by police officers, as was done in the case.
According to Menkov, Petkov is making an international scandal by interfering with the name of the European Chief Prosecutor Laura Coveschi
However, another lawyer, Mihail Ekimdzhiev, recalled on bTV about the showy police actions during GERB, about how people were taken out of their houses half-naked during the time of Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov (Menkov was also Tsvetanov’s lawyer in the cases against him. ), while “Ministry of Interior Pictures” is filming. Ekimdzhiev agreed that Borissov is an icon of “corruption and primitivism”. And yesterday’s demonstrations of Borissov’s supporters were compared to Pablo Escobar’s drug dealers – that’s how he was greeted when he was released from prison.
“From what my colleague Menkov was saying, I was left with the impression that something really unpleasant is already being prepared. democracy, to oppose this thing that will happen in the coming days. In the same way as the invasion of Geshev’s bashibozuka in the presidency, “Ekimdzhiev added.
“Both GERB and the MRF must acknowledge that they were part of the previous corrupt model and get rid of the people among them who are significant for this model, so that we can take seriously their claims that they want to be part of “Until then, they will be isolated from all processes,” Minister of Innovation and Growth Daniel Lorer (PP) told BNT. He hopes the opposition will “live out its catharsis” after the arrests. From the words of Daniel Mitov, who is now a GERB MP, it is clear that Borissov’s party is considering a vote of no confidence in the government. “The government has proved that they cannot be trusted. They abused the European Prosecutor’s Office and personally the name of Laura Koveshi. Kiril Petkov broke the law if he personally ordered the arrest of the opposition leader,” Mitov told BNT.
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