The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office submitted to the court a request to issue a European warrant for arrest (EZA) for Stoyan Mavrodiev. This was confirmed for "Now" from the Sofia City Court.
The claim has been assigned to a judge and will be scheduled for consideration within 3 days. The request is standard, it states that Mavrodiev is an accused and cannot be found. Meanwhile, there were unofficial reports that Mavrodiev was in Dubai. If that is the case, the EAW will not work unless he enters EU territory. The businessman Vasil Bozhkov also lived in Dubai until he decided to return to Bulgaria.
Mavrodiev is wanted after receiving an indictment in absentia, together with businessman Rumen Gaitanski - Valka and lawyer Ivan Georgiev for embezzlement on a particularly large scale. This happened after an action by the Anti-Corruption Commission in August.
Of the three defendants in the landmark case, Mavrodiev is the only one unknown to the authorities. There is a prosecutor's decree for a 72-hour detention for him, the sources of "Now" claim. from the state prosecution. The prosecutor's office has not officially confirmed this information. There is no evidence that Mavrodiev was also wanted through the Interpol system.
Gaitanski, Mavrodiev and Georgiev were accused last Thursday of embezzlement on a particularly large scale after the action of the Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday in the investigation of the non-performing loan for 150 million BGN granted to Gaitanski's company by the BBR. The loan was granted in 2019, when Stoyan Mavrodiev was at the head of BBR.
While the city court was hearing the case on Gaitanski's measure, the prosecution pointed out that he had deliberately induced Stoyan Mavrodiev to commit a crime, and part of the money from the loan was used to pay dividends to Gaitanski in the amount of BGN 46 million. and over BGN 26 million were used by the company "Kristalna voda" for payment of liabilities of TPP "Varna" (the company associated with Ahmed Dogan).
Lawyer Ivan Georgiev, representative of "Rodway Construction" - the company associated with Gaitanski received the loan of BGN 150 million. He is free on bail of BGN 50,000, which he appealed, but the court confirmed. In October, Gaitanski was also released on BGN 250,000 bail after spending 2 months in custody.
It was not clear whether the prosecutor's office is also investigating the other unsecured loans from BBR, about which Kiril Petkov raised the alarm years ago, when he was acting minister of the economy.