Sofia City Court (SGS) is sitting for the first time in the case against the former investigator Petyo Petrov, accused of document fraud on a particularly large scale, the court announced, BTA reported.
Today will be the dispositive hearing on the trial. The investigation against Petrov was completed in absentia, because even when the indictment was submitted to the court, the prosecutor's office announced that his place of residence in the country was unknown and after a thorough search, he was not found.
The case was initiated on July 28, 2021. According to the indictment, in the period from October 11, 2019 to March 23, 2020, through the use of false documents, Petrov obtained, without a legal basis, with the intention of misappropriating it, foreign movable property property – 147 coins with a total value of BGN 106,763 and one gold bar weighing 1,000 grams, 23.88 carats, worth BGN 109,718, owned by Y.Z., as well as a sum of money in the amount of EUR 550,000, with BGN equivalent value BGN 1,085,485.65, property of Y.Z., Y.Z. and P.Z.
The entire property (the coins, the gold bar and the amount of money) has a total value of BGN 1,301,966.65.
The other criminal proceedings investigating whether Petrov committed a crime are at the investigation stage, the prosecutor's office said in June.
At the beginning of the year, the court refused the prosecutor's office to issue a European arrest warrant for the former investigator.