‘Plot’ against Geshev reaches Strasbourg court

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has accepted for consideration the appeal of Toni Ivanov, more popular according to the prosecutor’s office, as Tony Parfum. It explicitly states that the investigation against so-called “conspirators” against Ivan Geshev, including Ivanov, is entirely a political affair.
According to the complaint, it aimed to prevent the construction of a political coalition that would introduce a mechanism for investigating the Prosecutor General and judicial control over the acts of the Prosecutor’s Office.
The facts presented by lawyer Mikhail Ekimdzhiev clearly justify the assumption that the discovered drugs of the addresses searched in the course of the “investigation” were thrown there by the searchers.
Due to a bunch of procedural violations, through the lawyer Ekimdzhiev Ivanov attacked the search and seizure of his former address as illegal and malicious in themselves.
If his complaint were a signal to the prosecutor’s office, it would have found evidence of crimes against justice committed by police and magistrates.

Together with Lyubena Pavlova, Diliyan Georgiev, Krasimir Kamenov – Karo, Tsvetan Vassilev, Bobokov (it is not clear which of the two brothers), journalists from BIRD.BG and several other persons who remained officially unnamed by the Prosecutor’s Office, Tony Ivanov is pointed out that he was involved in a “conspiracy” against Ivan Geshev, which should have led to the placement of the then Prosecutor General under the sanction of the global Magnitsky Act.
The plot was not only against the Prosecutor’s Office, but also against senior officials of the Ministry of Interior, the state prosecution said at the time.
About the recruited prosecutorial witnesses in the big and small “coup against Geshev” BIRD informs in three previous materials here

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here and here

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Записи: Свидетелят по делото за “преврата срещу Гешев” разказва за Таки, Ами и Къро

However, the impression remains that the suspicions of “conspiracy”, trading in influence

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by Ivan Geshev, Borislav Sarafov and company and organized criminal group are simply a reaction to the fact that the citizens (persons) in question collect data and evidence of corruption and symbiosis between organized crime, judicial and political authorities.
Despite the irrigation statements of the state prosecution about charges in connection with corruption deals, Toni Ivanov and Diliyan Georgiev are Accused Only in drug trafficking.
For some reason, the website of the prosecution lacks information in Bulgarian about this accusation.
There are no other accused.
BIRD journalists, referred to as protagonists, have not even been questioned.

It is the searches and the subsequent accusation against the two men that are obviously extremely problematic in the eyes of the ECHR magistrates!
It is an indisputable fact that about 90% of the complaints of Bulgarian citizens who reach before the ECHR, Bulgaria has been convicted.

It is not negligible that Krasimir Kamenov – Curo and at least two other persons from the so-called “conspirators” have testified before a foreign jurisdiction about crimes with an international element that have been “covered” by the Ministry of Interior and the state prosecution.
In the course of the performance made by Ivan Geshev and Borislav Sarafov and the presence of the Director of the National Police Atanas Ilkov, Krasimir Kamenov – Karo and Diliyan Georgiev were consecrated as informants of the BIRD.BG on the murder

investigation by Ruja Ignatova.
Probably, it was this publication, as well as the subsequent signal to the Ministry of Interior, filed by the editor-in-chief of BIRD Atanas Chobanov, that unlocked the “Pandora’s box” and put the prosecution in a situation where, instead of pressing charges, the state prosecution began to verbally accuse its critics of all sins as a hysterical gossip girl.

Subsequently, Krasimir Kamenov – Curo He was ostentatiously executed, with his wife and two other persons, and Diliyan Georgiev spent 8 months in detention under pressure from the prosecutor’s office to testify against the persons named by the accusers.
Later, an attack on Ivan Geshev was carried out.

Until the fall of GERB from power in 2021. Toni Ivanov is known only in the construction industry as the owner of Multibuild Engineering

and winner

After 2021, however, with the advent of the Change, Ivanov became a major target for the media associated with Peevski and Borisov.
And then to the prosecutor’s office.
Before the Prosecutor’s Office issued a European arrest warrant for Toni Ivanov, he was the subject of prosecution in other proceedings.
As early as January 31, 2023, a search and seizure was made in Toni Ivanov’s apartment.
The apartment is located in the metropolitan district of Boyana.
Although the investigation lasted more than 6 hours, investigators did not find anything there.
Then Toni Ivanov was arrested on charges of coercion in the conditions of a continuing crime.
He himself commented that the indictment is an attempt by the prosecution to interfere in business relations between partners in a deal – behavior that is known from the “Eight Dwarfs” case, for example.
On this charge, the prosecution’s “evidence” is procedurally unfit.
This is for recordings of telephone conversations, but these SSDs are operated without proper order from a judge.
Due to the unsuitability of the attached evidence, Toni Ivanov was left with a measure of restraint – subscription.
In Ivanov’s complaint, through lawyer Mihail Ekimdzhiev, he described that on March 2, 2023, he had already vacated the house in Boyana, with his friends finally removing the last part of his belongings on March 4.
On March 3, Ivanov traveled to Spain, where he went to be treated.
On March 7, while abroad, Toni Ivanov received a call from an employee of the Ministry of Interior with the surname Klisurski ordering him to appear before the law enforcement authorities for a DNA sample.
As early as March 2, Ivanov gave DNA material.
Nevertheless, Klisurski still wants one.
On the same date, at 11 a.m. in the house in Boyana, where Ivanov was renting but left it, a further search began.

The investigative actions are led by investigators from StSlS.
A series of procedural violations have been committed.
Although pre-trial proceedings were initiated months earlier and he was indicted and on the day of the search, Ivanov was contacted by phone, no one informed him of the subsequent searches on the property he used before leaving.
The search is carried out in violation of the provisions of the PPC.
The ECtHR accepts that at national level there are no means to challenge before the court the actions of the search and seizure authorities, so magistrates rule on such cases of violated rights.
In this case, the prosecution not only did not notify the defendant Ivanov of the search, but also did not allow Vasilka Mazganova, a lawyer sent by him, to the apartment.
StSlS investigator Lilyana Bozhilova told her that she was “a very low ball” and refused to provide her with a copy of the search and seizure protocol.
Subsequently, Bozhilova was awarded by Sarafov, probably for this manifestation of high professionalism.
On the other hand, three cadets from the Ministry of Interior – Vladimirov and Ivaylov, enter Ivanov’s former apartment.
According to Article 137, paragraph 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the participants should not be interested in the outcome of the case, and in this case the cadets of the Ministry of Interior simply follow the orders of their heads carrying out the investigation.
In the presence of these “independent” individuals, the “investigators” claimed to have found a white powdery substance that they would later announce was cocaine and 39 A4 leaves, a leaflet titled “Pests to Fire.”
No field test was done on the “white powder” substance.
The substance was found in plastic capsules of soluble vitamins and minerals.
On the search and seizure protocol there is no indication whether it has been previously authorized by a judge or has been approved post factum by a court under Article 161, para. 2 of the PPC.
Although Ivanov’s lawyers requested this information from the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office (Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office) with a request from 23.03.2023, it was unlawfully not provided to them.
This fact raises further doubts.

Ivanov’s complaint is explicitly bound by the press conference of the then Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev, given in the company of the current Acting Prosecutor General Borislav Bobby Sarafov, ex-spokesperson of the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office Siika Mileva, the head of the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office – Emilia Rusinova and Atanas Ilkov – Director of the GDNP.
For unknown reasons, the official announcement of the press conference was removed from the Prosecutor’s Office’s website.
According to Geshev, Sarafov and a company in Ivanov’s former apartment, investigators have found a list of Magistrates for dismissal.
Initially, prosecutors reported that Toni Ivanov and Diliyan Georgiev were investigated as part of an organized criminal extortion group, then the investigation was reformulated into “trading influence”.
Today, according to BIRD.BG information, this investigation is at a “dead end”.
For splendor, the men are also accused of drug trafficking.
During the searches at the addresses of Georgiev and Ivanov, investigators claim that identical capsules of soluble vitamins and minerals were “found” at both addresses.
It is no surprise that at Diliyan Georgiev’s address he remembers people are again cadets from the police academy.
In a truly democratic state, this fact alone would make investigative actions unfit and lead to an investigation against those who acted in this way.
Witnesses from the search at Diliyan Georgiev’s home claim that they heard the phrase “bring things”, after which a bag of 21,000 euros was found in one of the rooms, three capsules of soluble vitamins with a content of 70 g. cocaine and letters from someone Mitko S, who should be the journalist from BIRD.BG Dimitar Stoyanov.
Unlike the search of Ivanov’s former apartment, Georgiev was given a field test, which found that the investigators’ “find” was cocaine.

According to sources close to the investigation, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the idea of finding drugs during the searches was that of Petyo Petrov – Pepi the Euro, and the head of the “serious crimes” sector in the GDNP, Mihail Naumov, helped its realization.
However, no evidence was presented to our team in this direction.
Tony Ivanov’s complaint to the ECtHR clearly states that the drugs found at his former address have been planted.
The same was reported by eyewitnesses to the search of Diliyan Georgiev’s home.
Lawyer Ekimdzhiev addressed the ECHR as follows:

“My protected man removed on 02.03.23 all his personal luggage from the rented house, which was subject to search on 07.03.23, for which circumstance, as far as I know, there are already examined witnesses. Who, how and why planted the narcotic substances found in this house and fabricated lists of names of magistrates, which we learned from the media appearances of the prosecution, will be the subject of a thorough and comprehensive investigation in the future. It is not without significance that there are witnesses to these mildly wrongful acts who are ready to testify and when the time comes, we will also give their names and demand their questioning.”

Apparently, the ECtHR accepts the credibility of the arguments put forward in Ivanov’s appeal, if it allows it to be examined, namely that the “operation” seeks a political effect.
Through the coup case, Geshev and his team are clearly trying to influence the electoral process, to stop judicial reform, aimed at creating accountability and judicial control over the actions of the Prosecutor’s Office and the Prosecutor General in particular.

“If there’s no evidence, we’ll bring it!”

At its press conference, the prosecution directly attacked the party “Continuing the Change” and pointed out that Ivanov is a member of the party and is close to Assen Vassilev.
This in itself is not a composite act, but the prosecution exposes it.

Audio recordings were reproduced at the event, which with a huge dose of probability were made by the prosecutor’s witness
Philip Stoyanov
and which the prosecution claims were found in the home of Diliyan Georgiev.
Of course, the prosecution cannot give a reasonable explanation of how Georgiev has recordings of conversations that he did not attend personally and how he obtained them.

These recordings do not contain evidence of a crime prepared or committed, but the selectively cut excerpts are obviously presented in order to compromise the policy of Assen Vassilev – “Kokorcho”, journalists from BIRD.BG and all potential or designated as “enemies” of Geshev and the state prosecution.
The complaint draws a well-founded conclusion of malice of the investigators in view of all their above actions and violations.
Attorney Ekimdzhiev sees a coincidence in the approach of the investigators with the one revealed by Lyubena Pavlova during the

interview in which she describes the closeness between Acting Chief Prosecutor Bobby Sarafov and her ex-husband Pepi the Euro. Pavlova quoted a favorite phrase of the Euro – “If there is no evidence, we will bring it.” The drugs found at the addresses of Ivanov and Georgiev bear all the marks of those found, and investigators do not even try to remove fingerprints or DNA to link their “finds” to the accused persons.

In fact, the Euro is among the “stakeholders” in the operation against Ivanov and Georgiev because it believes that Ivanov has an intimate relationship with his ex-wife Lyubena Pavlova.
The Prosecutor’s Office refuses, without justification, all requests of lawyer Greta Ganeva, which aim to illuminate the procedural violations in the search in the former apartment of Tony Ivanov.
The investigators refused to question lawyer Vasilka Mazganova in connection with her non-admission to the investigative actions.
For Ivanov, the Prosecutor’s Office also issued a European Arrest Warrant (EAW), although as early as 2021 there were decision the Court of Justice of the EU that Bulgarian EAWs are not enforceable.
Currently, EAW is based on a prosecutorial act that is unappealable and not subject to judicial review and is contrary to EU legal norms and in general.

Separately, the text of the EAW to the Spanish authorities claims that the crime for which Ivanov is wanted is “drug trafficking”. Drug trafficking was much more severely punishable than the crime for which the arrest and surrender of the applicant to the Bulgarian authorities was requested. It is under art. 354a of the Penal Code – “possession of drugs”. 242 of the Penal Code, and no charges for such a crime were ever brought against Ivanov, but apparently the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office tried to deceive the Spanish authorities. To top it off, Ivanov is wanted with an Interpol and SIS red notice for alleged crimes, for which there is no charge – coercion committed on 15.12.2022 against Ivaylo Chavdarov Dimov – probable owner

of the company “Top Seed Bulgaria.” In fact, Ivanov has not been charged with drug possession or distribution of drugs at the moment. After the Spanish court rejected the implementation of the Bulgarian EAW, The prosecutor’s office strongly requested the Spanish authorities to hand over Ivanov’s seized personal belongings, especially his electronic devices.
Of course, they were returned to Ivanov after his release.

On the so-called “investigation” of the “conspiracy” against Geshev, the prosecution proceeded in conditions of permanent violation of the law.
From the search and seizure of the addresses of the accused persons, through the press conferences of the leading factors in the state accused and the subsequent pressure on the accused persons, all actions give grounds to believe that the rights of the accused and the detainees are violated.
In essence, only the charges of drug possession or drug trafficking remain active, but it is in these cases that a reasonable assumption can be made that the drugs are planted at the addresses searched by the “investigators”.
And the “impartial” poems – cadets at the police academy have turned a blind eye to be assigned to work under better conditions, for example.
Now the decision on this scandalous case is entirely in the hands of the ECHR.

Leading photo: Stopframe from the press conference of the Prosecutor’s Office on 16.03.2023 with a built-in photo from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg.

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