" Things do not look promising for how the countermeasures will go of serious government corruption. After the first point of our hearing had passed, we subsequently learned that the work of the committee had been suspended for want of a quorum just as decisions were to be made as to who should be heard at the next meetings and what steps the committee should take.
This was stated by the lawyer from the Anticorruption Fund Andrey Yankulov in "Day ON AIR".
According to him, it is more than clear that this committee will end as it did in the last parliament.
"What is obvious is that there is a reluctance to deal with the subject. What is it due to - probably fear. This parliament, purely temporal, cannot last very long. It is unlikely that the commission will have the objective opportunity to do anything because of the lack of desire of the majority of its members. Parliament has quite serious powers to control how institutions do their work. There is an opportunity to implement control," Yankulov added to Bulgaria ON AIR.
According to him, there is information about the complicity of a number of persons in public positions with criminal presence networks.
"We have been providing this data for 4 years. New data is constantly coming out, some institutional actions were also started, although without results, in which we saw that there is also objective information collected by the institutions themselves. It is not just about any claims of our organization. A lot of data has come out that has been collected over the years and by the institutions. Based on all this, we should have some result", commented the guest.
In the absence of political will, there is no way things will happen, Yankulov believes.
"The biggest problem that has been identified is that these institutions practically have to investigate themselves due to the fact that data is constantly coming out about the involvement of management personnel in the criminal structures in question. Objectively, this cannot be done. That is precisely why the parliament must play its part. To analyze what they did and to make decisions about exactly how to conduct the investigations. The solution is civil pressure and public speaking about these problems," the lawyer pointed out.