site.btaMFR Floor Leader Asks Prosecutors to Look into Findings of Journalistic Investigation into Bypassing of EU Sanctions against Russia

Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) floor leader Delyan Peevski referred a case to Acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov and State Agency for National Security Chairman Plamen Tonchev in connection with a journalistic investigation proving Bulgaria's bypassing of sanctions against Russia, the MRF press centre said on Monday. The press release specified that the case was about the investigation by bTV journalist Stoyan Georgiev on how a Russian oligarch and politician was avoiding sanctions and running a billion-dollar business in Bulgaria.

Peevski says that despite Bulgaria's declared readiness to comply with sanctions against Russia, journalists prove that Bulgaria is one of the options for easily avoiding them. I insist on a thorough investigation and punishments, if proven guilty, Peevski said. 

It is necessary for the state to use all its instruments to counter the alarming impression that international sanctions against Russia, which are aimed at stopping aggression and hitting Moscow's war machine, the oligarchy and President Vladimir Putin himself, are not working in practice in Bulgaria, Peevski insisted, quoted by the party press centre.