Géopolitiques de la Bulgarie

Sofia. It is too ambitious to stand and make evaluation for the activity of the judiciary, the Bulgarian Minister of Justice Miglena Tacheva said speaking to MPs in plenary hall. Tacheva made this comment at the end of the discussion of the report on the activity on the Prosecutor’s Office in 2006,a reporter of FOCUS News Agency informed.
Tacheva greeted the Prosecutor in Chief and the judges as a whole for the report, because ‘this is the first step towards the promised transparency and dialog in the activity of the judiciary’, she said.
‘I wish the Prosecutor in Chief and the rest of the Prosecutors to work together in a way to establish the state of law, where the force of the law prevails over the law of force’, Tacheva said.

Sofia. There should be changes in the Penal Code or a new one should be passed, Borislav Balgarinov, member of Bulgarian People’s Union (BPU), declared, reported FOCUS News Agency. The present Penal Code was 40-year-old and couldn’t possibly respond to the new social relations. Balgarinov expressed his gratefulness towards those who voted for the amendments in the Constitution which gave way for a debate on the condition of the prosecution. According to him there are some weak points in the judicial preparation of the court investigators – some of them are new. “The quality of the work on the pre-court proceedings is low”, Balgarinov says and adds that there should be changes in the ways of thinking in the prosecution.
According to the independent MP Mincho Hristov a change in the ways of thinking in the judicial power is not that urgent on the background of other problems in it. He added that the basic problem is the one with corruption. In order for it to be solved Hristov thinks that the immunity of the MPs should be abolished. In second place, the collective decisions should not be free of penal responsibility. According to him this would mean an organized criminal group.
The deputy-chairman of the Parliament, Lyuben Kornezov announced that Hristov is insulting the Parliament with such definitions. Hristov responded by saying that 240 MP-s sometimes represent an “organized criminal group” because they introduce lobbyist interests in the legislation. Mincho Hristov considers that it is important for a revision to be made on all privatization deals as well as on the so called “credit millionaires”.
Hristov’s phrase “organized criminal group” will be entered for consideration in the Parliament Committee of Ethics.
Tsvetana Georgieva

Sofia. According to the leader of the Bulgarian political party Democrats for Strong Bulgaria Ivan Kostov, the report of the Commission for legal issues in the Parliament is written with pink glasses. ‘I am starting to think that me and the Chairman of the Commission have read two different reports. The activity of the Prosecutor’s office does not need a pink reading, the leader of DSB said.
Kostov was speaking during the discussions of the activity of the Prosecutor’s office for 2006, a reporter of FOCUS News Agency informed.
According to Kostov, the accent should be put on the fact that Bulgaria has gone through very serious criticism in for the pre-court phase of the investigations.

Sofia. The report of the prosecution is the first thing which the bodies of the judicial power introduced after the amendments in the Constitutions, Maya Manolova, member of leftist “Coalition for Bulgaria”, declared, cited by FOCUS News Agency. Manolova pointed out that the Supreme Administrative Court and the Supreme Court of Cassation should present such reports as well.
Concerning the report of the Prosecution for 2006 Maya Manolova declared that she had expected difficulties in its preparation but this has not been the case. It rather created difficulties for the MPs with the amount of the contents of about 250 pages. “This is a full, objective, specific and a comprehensive report,” announced Maya Manolova. According to her the data for lapses in the separate sections in the prosecution were not omitted. She underlined that the responsibility of the separate sections of the juridical system was not hidden, even more it is measured in specific data. In her opinion this is what lacked in the prosecution and thus transparency will be created in the juridical system. “The prosecution is the first section which entered the juridical inspectorate,” the deputy reminded. She doesn’t agree that it is normal for the number of the legal proceedings of the prosecutors to be small.
Tsvetana Georgieva

Sofia. Many of the facts in the Sofia Heating Utility case will be uncovered, Bozhidar Dzhambazov, supervising prosecutor in the case, said in an interview with the Bulgarian bTV television channel.
In his words the facts are very surprising and date back to 1996-2006 – the period when the company was managed by Valentin Dimitrov. The damages caused in the period amount to millions, the prosecutor stressed.
So far there is no new defendants, he added, emphasizing it was difficult to say how many cases related to the Sofia Heating Utility one would be initiated. Dzhambazov reminded they started with three and now there are seven cases.

Sofia. The National Institute of Justice will hold a three-day international conference themed ‘Mutual trust and judicial training. Towards a common culture in European law training’, the institute informed. The conference starts on October 24 at 9.30 am in Hall 201 of the institute. The event is held within a twinning project of the institute and the law school in Barcelona. Magistrates and experts on European law from EU member states will attend the event. Judges and prosecutors specialized in European law will take part, too. Michael Humphreys, Head of the Representation of the European Commission to Bulgaria will attend the opening.

Sofia. The Internet site of the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Supply was hacked by Turkish hackers on early Saturday.
When opening the site you can see the name of the organization that some time ago hacked the site of Attack party – “Ayyildiz Team”, the landscape with Turkish symbols, and a message in English and Turkish, saying the hacker’s attack is a protest against Volen Siderov and his Attack party.
Earlier today BNR announced, quoting BG Turk, the Internet site of the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works was also hacked. However, the site is accessible and no signs of a hacker’s attack are visible.

An insider from the Ministry of Agriculture might have helped with the attack against the ministry’s Internet site because it is headed by a Turk, Attack party leader Volen Siderov announced later. He was commenting the hacker’s attack against the Internet site of the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture.
He added he did not expect for the Bulgarian services to act adequately.

Turkish hackers attacked the Internet sites of two Bulgarian state institutions – Ministry of Agriculture and National Directorate for Building Control, Focus News Agency noticed.
The message says: “Because the Attack party and Volen Siderov tell lies, the internet sites of some of your state institutions have been hacked by Ayyildiz group. The more lies are told, the more attacks will be carried out.”
A video footage from www.youtube.com can also be seen on the site. The material shows a plaque in the village of Tranak, Burgas region, being broken. Two masked youths are breaking with picks the plaque put in memory of three Turks shot as terrorists in Bulgaria in the period 1984 to 1986.

The website of the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Supply has been hacked on Saturday between 11.00 am and 12 noon. Agriculture Minister Nihat Kabil has immediately notified the Chief Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (CDCOC). Specialists and officials from the directorate are currently working on recovering the webpage.
The database of the site of the ministry has not been affected at all.