Justice Minister appeals the refusal of SJC to consider part of the signals for removal of the Prosecutor General

Justice Minister Nadezhda Yordanova submitted a complaint to the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) against four decisions of the Plenum of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), taken during the debate for early removal of Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev, held on april 4.

On April 4, the SJC allowed substantive discussion on the cases concerning MEP Elena Yoncheva, the Banevi case against Bulgaria, and Geshev’s comments about the Bar and Law Society, as well as non-governmental organizations. The SJC refused to discuss these to the extent that they apply to Geshev’s actions or inactions before taking office as Prosecutor General on 18 December 2019. The Plenum also refused to thoroughly review the Josi case.

One of the co-owners of the Josi dairy company claims that he had transferred shares of the company to Geshev's father so he can have the Prosecutor General on his side while having a conflict with the other co-owner.

"I stand by my arguments that the undermining of the prestige of the judiciary, where a senior position such as that of the Prosecutor General is concerned, may extend to conduct prior to his assumption of office, due to the fact that in order for a person to assume the office of Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria, he should meet high moral standards, Yordanova wrote in her complaint.

Therefore, I cannot agree that it is possible to divide in time the activity of the magistrate and to assume that the lack of moral qualities is not a basis for taking a decision under Article 175, paragraph 5 of the Law on the Prosecutor's Office," the minister wrote in her appeal to SAC. "In view of the above mentioned, I consider that it is essential to examine the question of when the circumstances contained in my proposal under Article 175, paragraph 5 of the Judiciary Act, by which the prestige of the judiciary was undermined, became known in the public domain," the document said.

source: BGNES

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