The lieutenant colonel of the National Security Service, Boris Ivanov, and Ivo Maslarov, returned through Interpol, have been handed over to court by the military prosecutor’s office for the shooting of business lady Stanka Marangozova in Sofia. This is clear from an official announcement of the state prosecution. They are accused as instigators and helpers, and Petar Kostov goes to court together with them as a direct perpetrator.
The indictment was filed in the Sofia Military Court. This is the second attempt to open this case, after a year and eight months ago, military judges returned it to the state prosecution because of numerous omissions. At that time, Maslarov had not yet been returned by Interpol.
According to the prosecutor’s office, 100 volumes of materials and evidence have now been collected that on October 10, 2019, in the city of Sofia, the perpetrator of the crime followed the victim to a block in the Mladost quarter and fired from a motorcycle, concealing the weapon with a bouquet of artificial roses. 46-year-old businesswoman Stanka Marangozova was shot in the head with three bullets while talking on the phone in her car. Her body was discovered by the man with whom she lived on a family basis,
The National Security Service (NSS) has not been guarding the Prosecutor General for the second month. It turned out that Geshev refused the services of the NSO as early as April 28, 2020, and not two weeks ago, as BNT initially reported.
She was followed for almost a month, and a tracker was also used to determine her location. The motorcycle was found in a reservoir near the Sofia village of Chepintsi on May 20, 2020.
After the murder, the accused Ivo Maslarov left the borders of the country and hid from the authorities of the pre-trial proceedings, first in the Swiss Confederation and later in the Federal Republic of Germany, the prosecutor’s office said. Pursuant to the European Arrest Warrant issued by the Military District Prosecutor’s Office-Sofia, his location was established and on 05.10.2022 he was extradited to us. According to Maslarov, he turned himself in to the police in the Berlin subway.
Germany returned to us accusations from the prosecutor’s office as a guarantor of the murder of the businesswoman Stanka Marangozova Ivo Maslarov. He was wanted on a red notice by Interpol.
In the course of the investigation, an investigative experiment and numerous expertises were carried out – forensic-medical, computer-technical, physico-chemical expertises, etc.
For premeditated murder, carried out for a selfish purpose and by means dangerous to the lives of many, the law prescribes a penalty of “imprisonment” of 15 to 20 years, life imprisonment or life imprisonment without parole.
The Sofia Military Court is about to schedule a hearing to consider the case.
A long-time National Guard operative who ran an organized crime ring for contract killings, drug trafficking and extortion. It operated from January 2019 to May 2020.
Because of this murder, the then chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev resigned from the NSO on April 28, 2020. He came to the decision after the investigation into the murder of Stanka Marangozova and the collected evidence that the organizer of the execution of the wet order was an active employee of the NSO.
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2023-09-01 06:32:00
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