Bulgarian Prosecution Dragged out Former Government Minister’s case and then proceeded against co-owner and editor in chief of investigative website “Bivol”
The Public Prosecution has been inactive for over a year in order to reach the expiration of the limitation period for prosecuting the former Minister Ivan Danov, and the case against him to be terminated. Immediately afterwards, the Sofia Regional Prosecutor’s Office initiated libel proceedings against the Editor-in-Chief of the site Bivol, Atanas Tchobanov, who revealed how Danov has been draining the French social benefits system.
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