Organizational autonomy should be imposed on the magistrate investigating the prosecutor general. Perhaps we should think about a higher level of immunity, similar to the presidential one. This was stated by the former Minister of Justice Anton Stankov on the air of ''Your Day'' on NOVA NEWS regarding the words of prosecutor Daniela Taleva to "Dnevnik" that the law makes the ad hoc prosecutor dependent on those he investigates.
"The idea of the changes to the Judiciary Act is to select a list of criminal judges who should investigate very carefully. Ms. Taleva has been referred to a lot of signals, and a file should be opened for each one. The other judges, designated according to the legal list, should also be able to work on them. The ad hoc prosecutor must be organizationally independent, as well as be located in a separate building, with separate software and funding," commented Stankov.
The lawyer from the Anti-Corruption Fund Andrey Yankulov, in turn, emphasized that the mechanism at the legal level says that the person charged with the responsibility of investigating prosecutor number 1 is part of the prosecutor's office itself. "This is because only a prosecutor can lead an investigation and bring charges. The logic of the mechanism was to provide more guarantees for the independence of the specific magistrate investigating the Prosecutor General. However, these guarantees can always prove insufficient, especially in a hierarchical and centralized structure. There is no way to achieve complete independence if a prosecutor is going to investigate a Prosecutor General, even if it is a career judge," he commented.
According to him, the place of the ad hoc prosecutor is not in the prosecutor's office. "We need to think about a model in which those investigating and accusing the Prosecutor General would be completely removed from the prosecutor's office. However, this would mean constitutional changes," Yankulov further explained.