If Pascal is really judged as very serious, serious, long-term a smuggler or organizer of smuggling channels and operates smuggling channels - they had to locate him and then proceed with realization. Or for a specific criminogenic fact to occur, which would cause all these actions to be carried out at the moment. Therefore, it seems to me that the moment of this realization was rather politically chosen than actually caused by events that occurred.
This was explained to Sasho Dikov on the air of "Eurocom" Petya Bankova's lawyer - Ludmil Rangelov.
The charges against Petya Bankova are for participation in an organized crime group, which was created for the purpose of committing crimes. And one more accusation was raised at the last moment, and it is on the basis of the fact that, according to the investigators, on the instructions of Stefan Dimitrov - the other accused (Marin Dimitrov's son), she replaced the head of the Lesovo customs point. In the organized criminal group are father and son Dimitrovi, she and Nikola Nikolov - Pascal.
"The prosecution's evidence is not particularly convincing. In practice, the easiest accusation is that of the OPG. Dozens of times such accusations have been made and also dozens of times it turns out in the end that no such group exists. There is no hard evidence and I guess the prosecution is aware of it. This is entirely a topic of KPCONPI in terms of development and operation. One of the reasons is the circumstances of this Pascal.", lawyer Rangelov explained.
Regarding Bankova's claims that she did not know Dimitrovi, but later it turned out that they knew each other, her lawyer said:
She gives a somewhat plausible explanation - she was experiencing stress at the time. She was also asked about her acquaintance with a series of individuals. When you are taken out of the comfort of a high-ranking office and subjected to questioning, it is normal not to consider these acquaintances.