Mediapool.bg: The Inspectorate with the Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office Disbanded on Suspicions of Blameworthy Affairs

Destroyed documents, checks on anonymous signals and disciplinary prosecution of prosecutors based on their decisions about cases on trial are part of the violations, because of which the Inspectorate with the Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office was disbanded and the prosecutors working there – moved to other divisions, announced the Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov yesterday.

The Inspectorate with the Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office was a key authority of inside control within the state prosecution. Its ex-head Malena Filipova was appointed to the post in 2006 by Boris Beltchev. The activity of the Inspectorate was away from public attentions in the recent years and Mrs. FIlipova rarely gave public explanations regarding her work.

The Inspectorate initiated 36 checks during the last 3 years based on anonymous signals, which was referred to by Mr. Tsatsarov as “intolerable”. Even more concerning is however the practice of initiating checks against prosecutors for their orders, which are subject to judicial control rather than one by the Inspectorate. There are suspicions that the ones to conduct the checks picked on their own prosecutors to go after and turn their obligations against them.

The Inspectorate maintained an electronic register of the checks which was not part of the unified information system of the Prosecution office. Even if the checks did not determine guilt of the given prosecutor, the fact he was checked stayed and was taken into consideration at the time of their career advance.

“I don’t want such an Inspectorate. Neither do 80 per cent of the prosecutors for sure”, said Prosecutor General. He announced that he has ordered the report be uploaded on the internal information system of the Prosecution Office so that any prosecutor and investigator could read what the inspectors used to do.

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