The U.S. Treasury Department has asked a District of Columbia court to dismiss Delyan Peevski’s appeal of the global Magnitsky Act sanctions imposed on him two years ago. reported “Capital”. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has provided documents containing more information about the grounds for the measures against him.
Among them is the allegation that in 2018 the MP from the DPS secured the appointment of a person controlled by him to a high-ranking post. The names of the appointees are not mentioned.
“Capital” recalls that at that time two key appointments were made in the anti-corruption commission KPCONPI and in the prosecutor’s office. These are Plamen Georgiev, former head of the commission, and current chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev, who in 2018 became Sotir Tsatsarov’s deputy.
Peevski also claims that he did not have any business or financial relations with the former deputy head of the SRS Control Bureau Ilko Zhelyazkov, also sanctioned under “Magnitsky”. However, according to the State Department, the appointment in 2018 was made “under Zhelyazkov’s control to ensure that Peevski has loyalty and control“.
After the imposition of sanctions in 2021, there were no consequences for Peevski and Zhelyazkov in our country. The prosecutor’s office reacted in the usual way – it ordered checks, which found nothing wrong, and the proceedings were dropped. Recently, after Vladislav Goranov, Rumen Ovcharov and three other people were sanctioned under “Magnitsky”, the state prosecution recalled its previous inspections in an attempt to explain that some work was still done.
The American Ministry of Finance commented on the refusal to initiate a case in our country and indicated that the prosecutor did not have access to “the evidence on which OFAC listed your client“.
Additional information was requested by the prosecutor’s office, but US authorities do not have a practice of providing such information. The idea that those who sanctioned should say what the violations were was also fundamental for DPS.
