Judge Svetla Daskalova from the Varna District Court, hearing the case against the mayor of the city, Blagomir Kotsev, ordered that the defendant be transferred from the prison in Sofia to the Varna prison.
With her second order, she scheduled for November 27, 2025, at 1:30 p.m., in an open court hearing, the consideration of the applications submitted by Kotsev's lawyers for a change in the preventive measure "detention in custody" taken against him during the pre-trial proceedings.
We recall that 2 days ago the Supreme Court of Cassation decided that the case against Blagomir Kotsev should be heard in the Varna District Court. Earlier, the Sofia City Court terminated the court proceedings and sent them to the Supreme Court of Cassation for consideration of the existence of grounds for transferring them to another, equal-level court.
On November 13, the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment with the Sofia City Court in the case against the mayor of Varna, Blagomir Kotsev. It became clear from it that he and four other people are going to court for a criminal association for receiving bribes. The prosecutor's office filed the indictment against the mayor, municipal councilors Nikolay Stefanov and Yordan Kateliyev, Kotsev's media advisor Antoaneta Petrova, as well as businessman Ivaylo Marinov. They will be responsible for 12 cases in which they wanted a percentage of public procurement contracts won to be returned to them.
According to the indictment, between July 2024 and May this year, they exercised influence in various configurations in order to receive bribes. The case also includes a deputy, about whom the prosecutor's office is still not saying anything specific, except that he is a member of parliament in the 51st parliament.