After the NRA and the Ministry of Interior, Delyan Peevski laundered!

In October 2021, after the publications, the Pandora Files , the editor-in-chief of the BRRD Atanas Tchobanov sent a signal to the Ministry of Interior for a crime under Art. 313 of the Penal Code against Delyan Peevski. The documents in Pandora show that the MP had permanent residence in the United Arab Emirates while declaring that he was permanently resident in Bulgaria to stand as a candidate in the 2019 European elections.

From the response of the Ministry of Interior, signed by the full-time employee of the State Security – Stoyan Ivanov , it becomes clear that the Ministry of Interior has carried out a probe, but has not approached the Prosecutor’s Office. And he zealously guards Peevski’s personal data.

In addition, Peevski has declared false data to the court, DG BOETS recalls, submitting a declaration of compatibility of the European elections. This is a separate article of the Penal Code, for which up to 5 years in prison are due.

BOETS also reported that the NRA had laundered Peevski after their signal about his undeclared companies from the Pandora Files. Rumen Spesov’s office made a blitz-inspection only for 2020, which has not found any violations.

See the full text of the signal to the Ministry of Interior sent on October 8, 2021. You can read the answer of the Ministry of Interior in the facsimile below.

Signal to the Minister of Interior Mr. Boyko RashkovDear Mr. Rashkov, In the documents known as the Pandora Papers, a permanent residence permit of Mr. Delyan Peevski in the United Arab Emirates is found, which expires on 21/06/2018 382843774.

The permanent residence permit is valid in case the bearer lives not less than 6 months a year in the UAE. At the same time, Mr. Peevski is a Member of Parliament in Bulgaria. Mr. Peevski appeared in the Elections for Members of the European Parliament on 26 May 2019 and won a parliamentary mandate.

However, according to the Law on the election of Members of the European Parliament from the Republic of Bulgaria, the candidate must have lived permanently for at least the last two years in the Republic of Bulgaria or in another Member State of the European Union. In other words, from May 26, 2017 to May 26, 2019, Mr. Peevski should have lived permanently in Bulgaria. In this situation, there is an incompatibility of Mr Peevski, since he lived permanently in the UAE at least until June 21, 2018. In addition to the incompatibility case, Mr. Peevski has submitted a declaration to the CEC that he has lived permanently in Bulgaria during the two years preceding the European elections.

It can be concluded that this declaration has confirmed untruth before a body of power, an act punishable under Art. 313.

I would like the Ministry of Interior to carry out a verification of these data, within which the following essential questions will be answered: – Has the residence permit of Mr. Delyan Peevski been renewed in the United Arab Emirates after 21/06/2018? – according to data from the border checkpoint, how many days did Mr. Delyan Peevski stay in Bulgaria in the two-year period before the European elections in 2019?

The Bulgarian politicians in the Pandora Papers revealed so far are Delyan Peevski, Nikolay Mladenov, Nikolay Barekov, and Arben Havalyov. The investigation of the BIRD.BG also revealed the secret offshore companies of the owners of First Investment Bank
Tseko Minev and Ivaylo Mutafchiev
, who over the years have received loans worth over a billion levs from their own bank. Their offshore companies have also been used in schemes for racketeering the business with final beneficiary Delyan Peevski. After the outbreak of the Pandora Files scandal, several Bulgarian institutions, including the NRA, promised to investigate the persons with offshore companies, but the only publicly known action so far is the habituation of Delyan Peevski to the State Agency for National Security.

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