Nikolai Kokinov, Chief Prosecutor at the Sofia City Prosecution Office, gives an interview for “24 chasa”. Mr. Kokinov points three main downfalls in the work of the dismissed Supreme Judicial Council – delay in the professional growth of magistrates, incoherent and inefficient criteria for measuring the docket-load in different courts/prosecution offices within the country, and the lack of criteria for professional growth. However, states the Sofia City Prosecutor, the recently elected Supreme Judicial Council shall be accessed in its work after a period of time.
Mr. Kokinov also comments on high-profile criminal cases and the Prosecution Office’s involvement in the trials. He points that those cases are being analyzed after trial, so that conclusions could be drown and mistakes corrected.
Asked about the next prosecutor General, Nikolai Kokinov says that he should be a leader and a unifier.
On a question of the interviewer about his possible nomination for Prosecutor General Mr. Kokinov says that in case a proposition in this matter be made to him, he shall first answer those to make it. Discussing how he managed to stay away from public scandal, he shares that he lives a simple normal live and tries to be open and honest.