The Sofia City Court (SGS) issued a measure of "detention in custody" for the People's Representative and MP candidate Jeyhan Ibryamov.
"Mr. Ibryamov's case has several very serious firstly constitutional problems and secondly - criminal-procedural points that must be very carefully cleared in the work process. We fall into the situation of knocking first and asking later. When it comes to a person who basically has not one, but two immunities, it should be approached carefully.
This is what lawyer Dimitar Markovski commented in "Deniat ON AIR".
He explained Article 70 of the Constitution, which fixes two modes of solving the situation with a person enjoying immunity.
"One is a case in which this immunity occurs after a decision of the National Assembly, and the second is a permissive or notification regime. The prosecutor's office refers to this notification regime, with the claim that it is a matter of a proven serious crime in relation to Mr. Ibryamov. Here the question arises whether the case is related to this hypothesis of the Constitution", Markovski summarized to Bulgaria ON AIR.
If it is established that "we are not in this constitutional hypothesis, then all subsequent actions taken with Mr. Ibryamov are illegal,", the lawyer emphasized.
"If it is established that his case is not in the hypothesis of a serious crime, then all the procedural and investigative actions done with him from the moment of his indictment and detention are illegal. A premeditated felony is related to the fact that it must be premeditated at the specific moment. The fact of handing over and receiving these funds is indisputably proven in the case, because they are marked and described. He has not yet given an explanation of the reason for this money. We cannot say that Todorov is an accused person and cannot be a reliable witness," Markovski pointed out.
Provocation to bribery is also a crime, the lawyer said.