The Prosecutor's Office requested that the court determine the most severe measure for Lachezar Stavrev - detention. The reason - a reasonable assumption that he committed a deliberate crime. According to the prosecutors, when he was an expert in the political office of Asen Vassilev 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 held 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 held an administrative position. He had a job description, but he did not have operational autonomy. Stavrev's lawyers say that he cooperated with investigators and has a clean criminal record.