{"id":48830,"date":"2024-01-07T11:51:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T10:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/?p=48830"},"modified":"2025-03-01T20:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T19:44:41","slug":"rashkov-list-radkov-assg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bird.bg\/en\/rashkov-list-radkov-assg\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of the Administrative Court threatened by a senior magistrate with “that list”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warnings from <\/span>a high-ranking magistrate <\/b> to withdraw from a competition for a judge at the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) and an attempt to deal with him. This is what the former chairman of the Administrative Court of Sofia-city (ACSC) described in a conversation with BIRD.BG – <\/span>Judge Radostin Radkov<\/b>, after being contacted for comment due to the fact that his name appears in the “<\/span>Rashkov’s List<\/b><\/a>“” with magistrates who have not declared properties and accounts abroad. According to him, he was placed on this list without grounds, probably maliciously in order to hinder his career development and to be “sanctioned” because he did not satisfy the wishes of authorized persons while he was at the head of the ACSC. <\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the specific case, the words of <\/span>Radostin Radkov<\/b> testify to serious interference of authorized persons, probably representatives of the executive and legislative authorities, in the functioning of the court and in the personnel policy of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). Radkov pointed out ” <\/span>the list of magistrates who, in violation of the law, have not declared properties and accounts abroad<\/b>” in many cases is a means of pressure and an instrument to keep magistrates in subjection. He stressed that in addition to the magistrates who have been included in this list, there are two more categories. The first was “our people” who have <\/span>Properties and accounts abroad<\/b>, subject to declaration, which were not declared, but these magistrates were conveniently “omitted” when the list was drawn up. The third category of magistrates were persons who had fulfilled their obligations under the Judiciary Act (JSA), but were included in this list in order to be repressed for one reason or another. <\/span><\/p>\n

When we talked with Radostin Radkov, like other magistrates, he expected to be contacted for comment. Probably because the topic of <\/span>his property in Greece<\/b> is not new at all. The former head of the ACSC Radkov has declared a property in Greece \u2013 a house with a yard in Asprovalta, back in 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n

“Our people” are missing from “that list”<\/span><\/h2>\n

It turned out that Judge Radkov had made his own research in connection with “the list of magistrates who, in violation of the law, have not declared properties and accounts abroad”, which was called by his colleagues “that list”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Radostin Radkov:<\/b> If we are talking about the list that is known to me, and not something different, it should be a list from 2018, and which was already rumored to exist. I haven’t seen it, but I know that there is a list. Are you talking about this list? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

BIRD reporter:<\/b> I don’t know what year it is from, but this or a similar list was commented on by Boyko Rashkov in his capacity as Interior Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n

Radostin Radkov:<\/b> Yes, so we are talking about a list. The list was prepared, if I’m not mistaken, when the Prosecutor General was <\/span><\/i>Sotir Tsatsarov<\/i><\/b>. \u041d\u043e \u043c\u043e\u0436\u0435 \u0431\u0438 \u0434\u0430 \u0435 \u0431\u0438\u043b\u043e \u0438 \u043f\u043e \u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u0442\u043e \u043d\u0430 <\/span><\/i>Ivan Geshev<\/i><\/b>, I don’t remember. In connection with your statement that I am on such a list, a series of checks were carried out on me. But to your question, I know about this list and I do not have a property that is undeclared. <\/span><\/i>I have a property abroad that has been declared<\/i><\/b> immediately \u2013 within the time limits within which it must be declared. It is not a secret what I have and what I do not have, it appears in my property declaration. My property is a small yard with a small house in Asprovalta \u2013 Northern Greece. It was acquired in 2014, the funds under the transaction were transferred by bank transfer. Completely. Within the period in which I am obliged under the JSA to declare it, i.e. the next year, I have declared it. Proof of this is my declaration. It existed on the website of the National Audit Office at that time. Separately, on the day of the transaction, the property was declared to the Greek fiscal authorities. His taxes are paid every year. Separately, this has been declared to the NRA in Bulgaria. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

A declaration with entry No <\/span>G1463\/23.04.2015<\/span><\/a> has been submitted to the National Audit Office, the acquisition price is BGN 277,285.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2015 Declaration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unlike many of his colleagues, Radkov clearly declares that he believes that there are many irregularities in connection with this list.<\/span><\/p>\n

Radostin Radkov:<\/b> It is very interesting why in the list of magistrates who have not declared accounts and properties abroad there are persons who do not meet the criteria – I mean myself. Personally, this question has been bothering me for years, but unfortunately I do not have the resources to answer the question why I am on a list in which I should not be included. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

BIRD:<\/b> Apparently we are talking about some kind of suspicion? You suspect that this list… <\/span><\/p>\n

Pressure on referees through “that list”<\/span><\/h2>\n

Radostin Radkov:<\/b> I do not know the other names on the list, but since I was checked by the Prosecutor’s Office and the National Revenue Agency and all the time it was claimed that the checks were in connection with this list, which I have never seen with my own eyes, we assume that there is such a list. From then on, I ask myself why I am included in this list, provided that I am not a person who has concealed and has not declared his property anywhere. Not only abroad. I associate it with the fact that when this list appeared and these inspections began, they lasted almost 3 years for me, very interestingly coincided with a moment when I had applied for a competition for the Supreme Administrative Court. Very interestingly, a series of journalistic publications coincided with this period, which were again based on the same list. Even a colleague of yours with a TV show made 3-4 shows at my expense, with similar statements, without much effort to clarify the facts, as you are asking me now. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Radkov clearly declared his inner conviction that he had been “<\/span>put<\/b> in” <\/span>in “<\/b>the list<\/b> of magistrates who, in violation of the law, did not declare properties and accounts abroad” <\/span>in order to exert pressure on him<\/b>, due to the fact that he had been the administrative head of the ACSC for two mandates.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Radostin Radkov:<\/b> And in this capacity and in my capacity as a candidate for judge in the Supreme Administrative Court, the important question for me is why I was included in such a list, which hangs like a sword of Damocles over my head? Your call is I don’t know which one in a row is related to this list. And I, who am wrongly included and suffer the consequences of this oversight or this deliberate inclusion. I have been putting up with them for 7 years now. At the moment I am a candidate for judge in the next competition for YOU and you call me with the same question. This is disturbing for me, I was not born yesterday, I have been a judge for 32 years, I have seen all sorts of things and this somehow tells me that it is not accidental that “this dish is being reheated”. I went through a full tax audit, which ended without any discrepancies on my part in my income and expenses. However, due to the mistake or bad faith of the person who prepared the list or of the persons who ordered the list, I am forced to explain that this is not the case. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Although he repeatedly stressed that he had not personally seen the “<\/span>list<\/b> of“, Radkov made it clear that he had been informed, by other colleagues, that they had also been placed on the list in order to create discomfort for them and possibly to become more obedient. However, the judge refused to name specific names without first obtaining their consent. <\/span><\/p>\n

Radostin Radkov:<\/b> You see, I also have my own channels of information, and because for me this question was striking at the time when I had to suffer the consequences of being on such a list, I made some efforts through my own channels to obtain some information. What I do know is that there are persons who meet these conditions \u2013 that is, they have no <\/span><\/i>declared properties or accounts abroad<\/i><\/b>, <\/span><\/i>but not included<\/i><\/b> in a similar or in this list. That is, ” <\/span><\/i>Our people<\/i><\/b>” \u2013 those we need to protect are not on the list. The rest who meet the conditions are included, and a third group of magistrates, I suppose I am not the only one in this group, who do not meet these conditions, in general, in my opinion, are included intentionally, precisely with the idea of keeping them in suspense and in fear. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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