© Julia Lazarova
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The photo is from Bozhkov’s online press conference before the election, where he showed an artifact that he claims was bought by him on the free market after it was previously seized by the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office as part of his collection.
Vasil Bozhkov, a businessman living in Dubai with 19 charges and leader of the Bulgarian Summer party, hopes to return to Bulgaria in August at the latest, because a local court has already rejected the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office’s request for his extradition. The last obstacle is the remaining Interpol arrest warrant. In an interview with Veselin Dremdzhiev in front of TV +, he said that he expects these obstacles to disappear in the near future.
Bozhkov said he was placed under sanctions under the US Magnitsky law only because of the charges brought against him by the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office. He reminded that none of them was brought to court.
It became clear from his words that there are testimonies and documents with which to support his signal to the prosecutor’s office for racketeering, corruption, extortion and torture of people by representatives of the previous government. According to him, it is criminal inaction of the Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev not to investigate this signal, part of which is his claim that the leader of GERB and former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and his Minister of Finance Vladislav Goranov demanded a racket of BGN 60 million, which have shared.
Geshev was not specifically asked or commented on the prosecution’s latest accusation of crimes against the republic, which, according to Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov, is cemented his position in Dubai due to the fact that no country would agree to extradition politically. charges. He only declared that he was innocent and that the prosecution had no evidence of anything that was not true.
Regarding today’s announcement by the prosecutor’s office, according to which he is the only one sanctioned under “Magnitsky” who has not been interrogated, unlike the former MRF MP Delyan Peevski, Bozhkov replied that he was not wanted for interrogation. He added that he had an official address and received letters from the court, but was not sought by the prosecutor’s office.
Bozhkov expressed readiness to testify before any committee that sought him, asked to comment on the revision committee formed today in parliament, headed by Maya Manolova. .
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