Chief Prosecutor seeks withdrawal of Bulgarian passports of four foreigners

Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov requested the withdrawal of the Bulgarian passports of four foreigners, the Prosecutor’s Office said on 28^th of June.

Tsatsarov has filed a request to the Justice Minister for the cancellation of the citizenship of the four, acting on information received from the State Agency for National Security about breaches during the procedure, which were confirmed by the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office.

Three Russians and a Kazakhstan national concealed information or failed to fulfil investment commitments that were the basis for getting Bulgarian citizenship in the period 2011 and 2016.

The Chief Prosecutor’s statement says that Russian citizen Sergey Druzhinin and Kazakstan citizen Kahir Rahimov had concealed information that would have served as grounds for a refusal to be granted Bulgarian citizenship.

The Russian citizens Vladislav Levitskiy and Galina Ulyutina had not fulfilled the investments that they had promised to make within the two-year term as required by Bulgarian citizenship law.

Procedurally, the Justice Minister must in turn forward a request to the President for approval of the withdrawal of the Bulgarian passports.

There is an on-going investigation by the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office into other cases reported by the State Agency for National Security.