Bulgaria's notorious prosecutor-general, Ivan Geshev, has been fired halfway through his seven-year term. However, the process of his dismissal has only confirmed to many that Bulgaria's judiciary is far from independent.
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Bulgaria's Commission for Anti-Corruption and Illegal Assets Forfeiture (CACIAF) is working on seizing the property of gambling boss Vassil Bozhkov, known as the Skull, identified by Bivol in an investigation based on the Panama Papers. The first of those seizures were announced by CACIAF's acting chairman Anton Slavchev on 22 March 2022 – a residential…
Bulgarian politicians designated as corrupt by the US and UK, including former ministers and various pro-Russian figures, have either shrugged off sanctions or as in one case, have made a boast about it.
The US and Britain have imposed coordinated sanctions on a range of Bulgarian politicians for corruption, several of them aligned to pro-Russian parties.