The Ministry of Justice has officially received a report from Teodora Georgieva, Bulgaria's European Prosecutor, detailing pressure, threats, and attempts to undermine the authority of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to Georgieva, these actions involve senior figures from the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Bulgaria as well as a political leader sanctioned for corruption by both the United States and the United Kingdom (Delyan Peevski). The Ministry described the signal as unprecedented.
Georgieva, who has faced a serious personal attack and is currently under disciplinary proceedings by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, provided extensive documentation regarding the conduct of high-ranking officials. This includes her involvement in investigations of high public interest, particularly the case surrounding the expansion of the gas storage facility in Chiren, a project critical to both national and European security. The disciplinary proceedings against Georgieva are also part of the report.
The prosecutor linked the case in Chiren to the anonymous release of secret recordings in March 2025 of a 2020 meeting she had with Petyo Petrov, identified as the alleged head of the criminal network “The Eight Dwarfs,” which exerted influence over Bulgaria’s justice system. Georgieva asserts she was introduced to Petrov at the restaurant “The Eight Dwarfs” by a high-ranking prosecutor from the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office with whom she had close...
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