Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov declared he was against the amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure put forward by GERB, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), the Patriotic Front and the Bulgarian Democratic Centre which would authorize him to block financial and property deals for a period of 48 hours. According to a press release by the Prosecutor’s Office he had conferred with Boyko Borissov “early in the morning”, the Prime Minister being the first to have made the amendments public. Sotir Tsatsarov convinced Borissov that the draft bill was dangerous and unacceptable, Duma writes. Monitor sheds light on the proposal by the Prosecutor General that the minister of finance be entitled to block or appeal private deals that are to the detriment of the state.
Corporate Commercial Bank majority stakeholder Tsvetan Vassilev writes in his personal blog that he is going to sue the Bulgarian state at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg over “the deliberate ruination of CorpBank”. The banker accuses the prosecutor’s office of aiding and abetting Movement for Rights and Freedoms MP Delyan Peevski in his attempt to take over Vassilev’s assets. “My only option now is to sue the Bulgarian state for the deliberate ruination of CorpBank on behalf of all people who have been unjustly affected by this sinister scenario, contrived and put in place with the support of numerous state institutions,” he writes, as quoted by Capital Daily.
Our region is now a conflict area – writes Trud on its front page, quoting a Ministry of Defence report on security in 2014. There is a real danger of cyber attack against government institutions, the report reads.
Standard writes that the European Commission is allocating up to BGN 600,000 to companies for new machines, the deadline being 30 June. This is the first stage of the Operational Program Innovations and Competitiveness.
“The church has given no instructions to the congregation to come to church with eggs and Easter cake, as if they haven’t eaten in a year,” says in an interview for Novinar culturologist Ass. Prof. Emanuil Moutafov. His advice is to do more good during Holy Week.
English version: Milena Daynova
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