The one removed because of the "Eight Dwarfs" case ; prosecutor Dilyan Deyanov has asked to be reinstated at the district prosecutor's office in Pernik, "Lex" reported.
Deyanov was temporarily removed from office on September 13, 2023, due to his involvement as a defendant in an official crime in a case related to the “Eight Dwarfs”.
Then the Procurator's Board decided that the suspension should last until the conclusion of the criminal proceedings against Dilyan Deyanov, but not longer than the term in Art. 234, para. 8 of the Criminal Procedure Code. According to the provision, procedural coercion measures cannot last more than a year and a half in serious crimes and eight months in other cases.
The eight months expired in May of this year. and Deyanov has asked to return to work at the district prosecutor's office in Pernik, where he was transferred after the closure of the special prosecutor's office. What will be the decision of the Prosecutor's College will become clear on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office announced that the investigation continues.
On August 15, 2023, the prosecutor's office announced that Deyanov was charged with an official crime for violating his official duties by returning gold coins seized as physical evidence to a person who he should not have received them.
According to the same investigation, the ex-husbands Petyo Petrov and Lyubena Pavlova are also accused. They will be responsible for material concealment for the fact that on March 23, 2020, “in complicity and with the aim of obtaining a property benefit for themselves, they hid foreign movable property, gold coins, which they knew were acquired by someone else through a crime according to Art. 282 of the Criminal Code”. If their guilt is proven, the two can be sentenced to 1 to 6 years in prison.
The case is related to the pre-trial proceedings known as “The Eight Dwarfs”. In 2019, the owner of “Izamet“ Iliya Zlatanov sought assistance from former investigator Petyo Petrov and his then-wife Lyubena because of a conflict with his son Yavor, who appropriated assets from their business in the company.
After this conversation, Zlatanov filed a blackmail report with the former special prosecutor's office. An investigation began, Yavor Zlatanov's home and office were searched and numerous gold coins and money were found, which were seized as physical evidence.
A few months after the beginning of the investigation, the gold coins were returned by order of the prosecutor Dilyan Deyanov, but not to Yavor Zlatanov, but to his father, who claimed before the Anti-Corruption Fund that the gold coins were already loaded into the trunk of the special prosecutor's office in the parking lot car of the then spouses Petyo and Lubena Petrovi. Iliya Zlatanov also says that the two have appropriated the property and business in “Izamet”.