There is evidence that police inspectors were beaten children with a cable and had their heads slammed into a desk during interrogation. The report against the police was received in the middle of last year.
According to Hristo Krastev - deputy chief prosecutor of the capital, the head of the organized crime group is the chief of police in Petrich.
The group demanded bribes from restaurant owners and drug dealers. One of the policemen was also a moneylender, granting loans at exorbitant interest rates.
They also threatened to set fire to establishments. There is also evidence that one officer provided equipment to another person in a drug cultivation case.
This was announced by Sofia City Prosecutor Iliana Kirilova during a briefing by the Prosecutor's Office on the action against police officers in Petrich.
„According to a report, an investigation was launched, and subsequently a pre-trial proceeding was initiated by the SGP for an organized criminal group of persons who are civil servants under the law on the Ministry of Internal Affairs, namely the head of management in Petrich, a junior inspector and an inspector.
The case is being worked on by the SGP at the suggestion of “Internal Security” in view of possible dependencies between the police officers in the territory of Petrich and their colleagues, as well as to avoid reproaches for an objective investigation. The crimes are for bribery, money laundering and those against justice. I will dwell on the last one.
We have data and photographic material of two detained minors against whom force was used and a beating was inflicted. According to those interviewed, with a cable or wire. No requirements of the Criminal Procedure Code have been complied with. They tried to present medically, but they did not have enough funds, and a photographic material was made of the children's grandfather. There is also information about their heads being rammed into a desk, which is unacceptable, she explained to journalists.