The prosecutor’s office has terminated the main investigation for the « eight dwarves »
Yordan Petrov was motivated in a decree of more than 50 pages, the newspaper reported, but the act is not final and is currently in the Sofia Appellate Prosecutor’s Office, where it is subject to instance control.
This pre-trial proceedings were instituted in 2023 and had to determine whether former investigator Petio Petrov-Euro had forced and bribed magistrates and made illegal records. In his testimony, his ex -wife, Lyubena Pavlova, said that with records he had blackmail magistrates, gave bribery to resolve cases in a certain way.
« It was like a whirlpool in a funnel »: prosecutors told how they investigated Petio Petrov-Euro
The case was conducted by two texts from the Criminal Code – for coercion and illegal records, with Petio Petrov being accused and declared for search. Subsequently, in June 2023 the case was seized by the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office and Yordan Petrov was appointed as a supervising prosecutor.
In August 2023, Petio Petrov, his ex -wife Lyubena Pavlova and prosecutor Dilyan Deyanov were charged with various crimes related to the « eight dwarves ».
Deyanov, who worked in the closed prosecutor’s office, and was then appointed to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Pernik, was charged with an official crime for violating his duties by returning gold coins as material evidence to a person who did not have to receive them in the case. For the same investigation, former spouses Petio Petrov and Lyubena Pavlova were charged, but for a real concealment.
