For more than two weeks - from February 18 to March 4, the prosecutor's office has not obtained any new information on the cases of "Petrohan" and "Okolchitsa". This is clear from the response of supervising prosecutor Tsvetelin Radoynov to the requests of Ralitsa Asenova, the mother of 22-year-old Nikolay Zlatkov, reports OFFnews.bg
"I inform you that information about the progress of the investigation has been provided to the Appellate Prosecutor's Office - Sofia and has been publicly disclosed. There is no other current information at this time.", wrote supervising prosecutor Radoynov in response to Ralitsa Asenova's lawyer. It is striking that the response is in the form of a letter, and not a decree, as is the order.
The briefing at which information was last disclosed by the prosecutor's office was on February 18. Even stranger than the fact that the prosecutor's office has not established anything for 16 days is the statement of the supervising prosecutor that Ralitsa Asenova should address her requests for collecting evidence to the investigating body, and not to the prosecutor's office.
Prosecutor Radoynov has responded in essence to only two of Ralitsa Asenova's requests. He reports that data has already been requested and provided by mobile operators. He also says that the release of her deceased son's body will take place when the prosecutor's office receives an opinion from the experts that the bodies are no longer needed for preparing expert reports.
All other requests remain unanswered. Among them are that the mother be notified of what procedural and investigative actions and investigative actions have been carried out in the said pre-trial proceedings and what are yet to be carried out.
There is a request that both pre-trial proceedings be merged into one, since conducting two parallel ones not only makes it difficult to uncover the objective truth, but also prevents it from establishing it.
There is not a single valid or lawful reason that would justify a crime with two crime scenes with an obvious connection between them, to be investigated by two different prosecutor's offices, respectively - investigating police officers, the mother wrote in her request.
There is also no answer to the question of why such a complex investigation was not entrusted to the National Investigation Service. "If you do not consider yourself competent to apply the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code in order to unite the investigation into the two proceedings and assign the investigation to the National Investigation Service, then there is a mechanism that can make this decision for you, for which the initiative should also be yours”, Ralitsa Asenova writes in her request.
To date, Nikolay's mother has neither been notified whether the forensic medical examination has been prepared, whether the body has been released from the place where it is stored, nor has she been notified of the need to carry out additional actions for which her son's body is needed.
Only two days ago, the relatives of the three people killed in the camper near Okolchitsa officially sent a number of other questions to the prosecutor's office. Nikolay Zlatkov's mother Ralitsa Asenova, Ivaylo Kalushev's mother Stiliyana Dimitrova-Maistorova and 15-year-old Alex's father Yani Makulev are demanding permission from the Vratsa District Court for the traffic data from the phones of the three victims. According to them, this is necessary in order to see the movement of each of the three on February 1st of this year, because, for example, Nikolay Zlatkov did not leave Petrohan, where a camper with Kalushev and Alex left from.
The relatives are demanding that the court request the traffic data of all phones and IMEI (containing information about the origin, model and serial number of the device) that fell into the cells around the Okolchitsa peak in the period 31.01-08.02 of this year. And to submit a request for legal assistance to the USA for the operation of the mobile station "Starlink" in the camper during this period.
The relatives also raise questions about established contradictions that have been published in the media. For example, they ask whether it is true that the three died 24 to 36 hours before they were found, which occurred on February 8. This would mean that they died on February 6.
Due to the contradictory information that has emerged, the relatives want new examinations of the bodies of Kalushev, Zlatkov and Makulev, which they should also attend as victims. If this is not done, the reliability of the expert reports will be strongly questioned.
The relatives want a re-interview of the witnesses and the experts at the Okolchitsa crime scene, as well as a new examination of the camper.