The former chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev has filed a labor case against the prosecutor's office in the Sofia District Court, it can be seen from the case registers. He insists on receiving the 20 salaries that are due to magistrates when they leave the system (as long as they are not fired). It is about BGN 250,000 according to rough calculations, Sega reported, referring to its sources.
The process was initiated last year, but has not yet been scheduled and is at the stage of exchange of papers between the two parties. For some time, the case was suspended to await the outcome of other cases related to his exit from the prosecutor's office, which Geshev is conducting in the Supreme Administrative Court. Several judges have also changed, which is permissible in civil cases.
On June 12 The SJC voted for the dismissal of Ivan Geshev as chief prosecutor for violations of the code of ethics. Three days later, President Rumen Radev signed the decree for Geshev's release. Then, on June 16, he submitted a request to the Prosecution College of the SJC to be reinstated as a prosecutor in the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor's Office. On June 19, before noon, Ivan Geshev submitted a new application to the SJC, in which he said that he no longer wishes to work as a prosecutor.
"Given this, I do not wish to be appointed as a prosecutor in the Communist Party of Ukraine and to continue working in the prosecutor's office at all, and you may accept the above as a resignation," Geshev wrote. On the same day, the Prosecutor's College of the SJC accepted for information the application by which Geshev refuses to return to work at the prosecutor's office.
Ten days later, the former attorney general sent a new letter to the council, in which he demanded that the board vote explicitly on his resignation. However, on July 5, the collegium again did not come up with a deliberate decision and left Ivan Geshev's letter without consideration. It was pointed out that the former Attorney General had withdrawn his express request to be reinstated as Attorney General.
Geshev appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court with the argument that the position of ordinary prosecutor belongs to him and he should be released after resigning. Resignation would actually allow him to collect his 20 salary severance pay.
However, the Supreme Court concluded that Geshev lost his status as a regular prosecutor in 2016, when he became the head of the special prosecutor's office. Then he was appointed deputy. chief prosecutor, and finally for the chief prosecutor - all managerial positions. Thus, the only possible legal conclusion is that after June 15, Geshev does not have the capacity of a prosecutor, therefore his request to be relieved of his position upon resignation is without subject, the supreme judges accepted.
Last fall, Geshev tried to enroll as a lawyer in the collegium in Kyustendil, which cannot be done before 2 years have passed since his dismissal from the judiciary. Then he presented his political project.
In 2020, it became known that Geshev is also a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law and History of Southwestern University, enrolled in an independent form of study. It is not known if he is already a doctor.