They released the deputy of the former mayor of the capital's "Mladost" district. Desislava Ivancheva - Bilyana Petrova from prison. This is what the Court of Appeal in Burgas decided today, and the decision of the magistrates is final, writes "Bulgaria today".
At the end of 2022, the Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) finally convicted all three - Ivancheva, Petrova and Dyulgerov, who received effective sentences. Ivancheva was sentenced to 6 years in prison for being the mayor of “Mladost" in 2018, through blackmail, she demanded 250,000 euros from Vaklin in order to move his files to the municipality, then she reduced the requested amount to 187,000 euros, and on April 17, she accepted the first part of the money – the marked 70,000 euros that were found in her car.
Her former deputy Bilyana Petrova was sentenced to 5 years in prison, and Ivancheva's predecessor as mayor of “Mladost" – Petko Dyulgerov – to 4 years in prison.
In July, the District Court in Sliven released Petrova early, but the prosecution protested this decision.