The court left Lachezar Stavrev in custody due to the risk of committing another crime, BNT reported.
Earlier, the prosecutor's office asked the court to determine the most severe measure for Lachezar Stavrev - detention in custody. The reason - a reasonable assumption that he committed a deliberate crime. According to the prosecutors, when he was an expert in Asen Vassilev's political office at the Ministry of Finance, he ordered the director of the "Customs" agency Petya Bankova to appoint and reassign employees. He had personnel influence to distribute employees at customs points and controlled employees in collecting irregular amounts. According to the testimonies of Petya Bankova and Stefan Dimitrov, he was holding sums of money that were collected as a bribe when crossing the border.
As an expert, he did not have a job, a registered computer, a username and password. According to his defense, he was in an administrative position. He had a job description, but he did not have operational autonomy. Stavrev's lawyers said that he cooperated with the investigators and has a clean criminal record.
In his right to the last word, Lachezar Stavrev also referred to his clean criminal record. He said that he was a good person, from a good family and that until his arrest he had not had any contact with such things. He emphasized that he had cooperated with the law enforcement agencies so far and asked for a lighter measure to be imposed on him.