There were plans to assassinate Bulgarian Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev.
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Explosives were planted along the route of his cortege. She was found and blown up on the road between the city of Samokov and the capital Sofia, along which Ivan Geshev was driving with his deputy and other colleagues.
An explosive device in front of one of Geshev’s cortege cars was remotely detonated. The assassination attempt took place a few kilometers from Sofia near the village of Bystritsa.
The explosion occurred next to the car of the chief prosecutor. The explosive device was placed in such a way as to kill, it contained about 3 kg of TNT and damaging elements. A crater with a diameter of about three meters and a depth of about 40 cm was formed, said Borislav Sarafov, head of the National Investigation Service.
Earlier in Bulgaria, it was publicly announced that the Prosecutor General would go to Turkey, but before that he decided to visit one more place, so law enforcement officers are checking whether there was a leak of information about the change in the route of the motorcade.
In the spring of 2023, the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office claimed to have uncovered a conspiracy of politicians, businessmen and the mafia against prosecutors and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the country’s chief prosecutor, Ivan Geshev.
Recently, on April 27, Geshev and Deputy Director of the National Investigation Service Petko Petkov paid a visit to Ukraine.
Geshev also said that his department had launched an investigation into how the country’s government applied European sanctions against Russia. The National Revenue Agency is responsible for imposing sanctions in the country and has not issued a single act imposing sanctions in the last eight years.
Delyan Dobrev, a member of the Bulgarian parliament, said last week that Russian oligarchs were laundering money through a bank in Bulgaria. The deputy did not indicate the name of the bank. A day later, the prosecutor’s office announced that it had instructed the State National Security Agency to investigate the case.
Source: Racurs
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