site.btaSpecialised Prosecution Office Charges Three Sofia Lawyers with Criminal Money Laundering

March 18 (BTA) - The Specialised Prosecution Office has
charged three lawyers and an office employee with participating
in an organized criminal group involved in money laundering.

The prosecutors said that the evidence collected to date shows
the group has been operating since 2014. The participants used
firms controlled by them and registered under 'front men' in
Bulgaria or such in offshore zones with open accounts in
Bulgarian banks.

People with power of attorney from these companies withdrew or
ordered transfers to certain accounts of money acquired by
criminal means.

On Tuesday, the Specialised Criminal Court left the head of the
group behind bars, while the others were released under bail of
150,000 each. The office employee was released under bail of
50,000 leva.

Mediapool.bg reports that the alleged group leader is one of the
 lawyers of fugitive banker Tsvetan Vassilev, Lazar Karadaliev.
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