The court will hear the case against Evelyn Banev Brendo on Monday, April 28. The case will be heard at the request of Brendo.
We recall that the Sofia City Court has a request from Evelyn B., with which she wants to serve the sentences imposed on her by Italy and Romania in Bulgaria.
The convicted Evelyn Banev – Brendo appeared before the prison in Sofia voluntarily, he was detained and placed in the Sofia prison to serve the sentence of imprisonment, with 24.06.2024 being considered the beginning of the sentence. Evelyn Banev – Brendo was found guilty of participating in an organized crime group on the territory of several countries and of financial operations with money obtained from drug trafficking. The sentence entered into force on 26 April 2018. A sentence of imprisonment for a term of 6 years was imposed with an initial strict regime in prison.
By a verdict of 15.02.2013 of the Sofia City Court (SCC), which entered into force on 26.04.2018, E.B. was found guilty of the fact that for the period from 17.10.2002 to 30.05.2005. on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Virgin Islands, the United States of America, the Swiss Confederation and the Republic of Austria participated in an organized criminal group together with two other persons, established for the purpose of committing crimes under Article 253 of the Criminal Code - carrying out financial transactions (depositing in cash and orders for transfers of sums of money from various bank accounts of companies in banks abroad to the Republic of Bulgaria for crediting the activities of “PFY“ AD) with money that they knew was acquired through illegal trafficking in narcotics - acquiring, distributing, possessing, transporting and transferring high-risk narcotics in large quantities without a proper permit - a crime under Art. 321, para. 3, item 2, in conjunction with para. 2 of the Criminal Code.
A sentence of imprisonment for a term of 6 years was imposed with an initial strict regime in prison. With the verdict, the court has recognized and deducted the preliminary detention of the convict. In 2021 and 2022, the convict filed applications to the Sofia City Court on the basis of the Act on the Recognition, Enforcement and Transmission of Judicial Acts Imposing Imprisonment or Measures Including Imprisonment, by which he seeks to recognize and accept for execution in the Republic of Bulgaria judicial acts issued against him, by which he was imposed a penalty of imprisonment by the competent judicial authorities of two other countries that are members of the European Union - Romania and Italy. Both applications of the convict were left without consideration because the applicant was not on the territory of the European Union, as required by the special law.