European Prosecutor representative in Bulgaria to face anti-corruption review

Sofia: The Bulgarian representative in the European Prosecutor’s Office, Teodora Georgieva, will be subject to an anti-corruption check, the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office has announced.

The procedure has been kick-started after an anonymous email was sent to the media, accompanied by a video in which a lobbyist talks about the European Prosecutor’s Office with a woman whose face is not visible. The video was accompanied by a letter that claims that lobbyist Petyo Petrov spoke with Teodora Georgieva.

Petyo Petrov, known by the nickname Euro, is the former head of the influential investigative service in Sofia, and in recent years, numerous public testimonies have accumulated that he created a huge criminal network to influence the judiciary, the police and the services.

He has been missing for two years, after being declared wanted in a criminal case for concealing a huge amount of gold from a Bulgarian businessman.

Now the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office has become active and has in turn begun an investigation into Teodora Georgieva due to the anonymous accusations against her of connections with Petyo Euroto.

“The investigation has been assigned to the Commission for Combating Corruption, and instructions have been given to identify persons who could be related to what is shown in the video and to download information from them,” the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

Investigative journalist from the Anti-Corruption Fund Nikolay Staykov claims that the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office has most likely managed to acquire the secret archive of Petyo Petrov – Euro, which supposedly contains a lot of discrediting data on hundreds of magistrates.

According to him, the leaked clip with Petrov, which became the reason for the investigation of the European Prosecutor Teodora Georgieva, is a clear attempt at intimidation. Two weeks ago, Georgieva gave an interview in which she spoke about how Bulgarian institutions are trying to thwart investigations worth hundreds of millions conducted by the European Prosecutor’s Office.