QuotMagnitskyquot sanctions USA is trying to bypass the captured country, the pressure on the corrupt will intensify

Nothing This happened in Bulgaria with the persons named in the previous list under "Magnitsky".

This is also the most likely explanation why there is now a second one and why other countries are involved in it - the US seems to be trying to find allies and increase the pressure on the corrupt in Bulgaria, with which, among other things, to show that the imposed by them sanctions have an effect In the days after the US authorities imposed a new round of corruption sanctions, the affected parties and institutions tried to distance themselves from the sanctioned, but their excuses did not sound very convincing.

The leader of GERB, Boyko Borisov, told the formation's assets in Stara Zagora, that the party has distanced itself from its former finance minister, Vladislav Goranov, as at the end of GERB's mandate, he resigned from the post and since then has not been included in the list for the parliamentary elections Deputy Chief Prosecutor and Director of the National Investigation Service Borislav Sarafov listed the stage of the cases against some of the people on the list, and justified the lack of action by the prosecutor's office against Goranov on the charges of businessman Vasil Bozhkov for commissions paid by him from his gambling business with the fact that Bozhkov is in Dubai and cannot be questioned.

The spokesperson of the prosecutor's office, Siika Mileva, announced on the prosecution's Facebook page that "as early as Monday, information will be requested from GDBOP, DANS, KPCONPI and the national narcotics agency to provide the information available to them about the sanctioned persons", but it is very likely that the answer will be this, as it was when the first list under "Magnitsky" was announced with Delyan Peevski, Vasil Bozhkov and Ilko Zhelyazkov, for whom it turned out that there was no information about what they were sanctioned for However, whatever justifications those affected by the new list of sanctioned persons for corruption may find, several serious warnings can be read from this move: to the inefficient judicial system, which in two years has failed to find practically a single corrupt politician or civil servant - sanctioned or not to the parties that blamed the adoption of the legislative changes related to the reform of the prosecutor's office and the possibility to investigate the chief prosecutor.

The inclusion of Britain in the imposition of sanctions shows that the previous ones are not forgotten, nor will the pressure stop - on the contrary, it is likely to intensify A resounding slap for politicians and prosecutors In plain text, this was stated by the head of the Office of Coordination of Sanctions in the US State Department, James O'Brien.

"The sanctioning of the five Bulgarian citizens leads to one thing - corruption Millions of euros have been stolen from the Bulgarian people and this affects the integrity of the Bulgarian justice system.

With today's action, we support the reform of the justice system," he said on Friday during his conversation with Bulgarian journalists on the occasion of the new American sanctions against Bulgarian citizens And he added: "I want to emphasize that we are doing this in solidarity with the European Union, which insists on reforming the administration of justice in Bulgaria.

We are pleased to see some steps taken in this direction at the Ministry of Justice [in Sofia] DPS and BSP supported the "Vazrazhdane" bill in the first reading in parliament, which provides that the chief prosecutor will be investigated by an investigator.

And then, with procedural gripes, the deputies from GERB failed to see the bills in the second reading in the last days before the parliament was dissolved Obviously, Borisov read this sign correctly, because in front of the GERB asset in Stara Zagora, he announced this behavior of the party deputies as a mistake and tried to shift the blame for it entirely on them, although this certainly happened with his sanction.

"Here is the big mistake of my MPs They think they outplayed PP and DB.

Quite the opposite - they outplayed you because we, as a party, made a commitment to push through the judicial reform And for Europe and America, if GERB promises - it happens.

Because believe me - I talk to the important people in America quite often, they expected this to happen (note the passage of the Attorney General's oversight mechanism) That's why from the very first day we support-introduce, introduce-support Krum Zarkov's law," said Borisov.

Fighting corruption instead of imitation The sanctions for corruption under the "Magnitsky" law are both an assessment of the work of the prosecutor's office and a sign that if it does not start to investigate the corrupt, the actions of the American authorities in this direction will continue "There are many other tools to fight corruption, besides sanctions, but [their use] is a choice of the Bulgarian justice system, the European system and other participants in this space.

But with this act we are declaring our firm intention to stand up to corruption," said Jim O'Brien His words come against the background of the fact that there are no consequences for the persons sanctioned from the first list.

Delyan Peevski continues to be an MP Moreover, his party, DPS, justifies his stay in politics by the fact that the US side has not provided evidence of the corruption charges, although the US authorities do not have a practice of providing evidence, but impose sanctions based on information they have gathered .

There is no movement on the accusations of the businessman Vasil Bozhkov for giving commissions against ensuring the monopoly position of his gambling company The same applies to the third on the list - Ilko Zhelyazkov, known as "Peevski's lieutenant".

For these reasons, the sanctions against the three were probably also confirmed by the UK under their Global Anti-Corruption Regime, which is analogous to the global "Magnetic" law The repeated mention of the EU and other EU countries is the other key point that shows the tactics the State Department will follow in the coming months to show that the sanctions it is imposing are having some effect.

It seems that efforts will be made to circumvent the captured Bulgarian judiciary and key political parties .

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