site.btaProperty Acquisition Checks Launched against Senior Judiciary and Investigation Officials

April 4 (BTA) - The Supreme Cassation Prosecution Office
is probing property acquisitions by Counter-Corruption and
Unlawfully Acquired Assets Forfeiture Commission Chair Plamen
Georgiev, the son of National Investigation Service Director
Borislav Sarafov and the wife of Supreme Cassation Court
President Lozan Panov. The investigation has been ordered by
Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov in accordance with the
Judicial System Act, following media reports, the prosecution
service said on Thursday.

Reacting to the news, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said at GERB
 party headquarters: "We in GERB have set a standard, and
whenever there are such scandals - whether they involve an MP, a
 parliamentary group floor leader, a justice minister or a
deputy sports minister - resignations follow."

Borissov went on to say: "I would recommend the same to those
who are implicated in these scandals now, but there are
judiciary members among them who do not like being lumped
together [with politicians] or are quite sensitive. However, the
 same standard should be applied to all. They could take a long
leave from work while the probes are being conducted by
institutions independent from them." RY/VE