The Kyustendil District Court has set new dates for January and February next year for the next 4 court hearings in the case of the "Dupnish Popular Savings Bank", which went bankrupt in 2013, BNR reported.
Since March, 16 hearings have been held in the case, with over 125 witnesses questioned. According to the prosecution, 226 people who lost their money suffered.
The trial went through complex twists and turns, was stopped and renewed. The case was filed in the Kyustendil District Court based on an indictment by the Plovdiv District Prosecutor's Office, since the last registration of "Dupnish Popular Savings Bank" is precisely in Plovdiv.
The defendants were initially the spouses Ivona and Georgi Blaznakova from Dupnitsa. After her husband committed suicide in the summer of 2019, charges were brought and brought against the defendant Ivona Bliznakova for three crimes. They are for causing significant damage by carrying out banking transactions, for "money laundering", as the property is of particularly large size and the case is qualified as particularly serious, as well as for avoiding the establishment or payment of tax obligations.
The penalties provided for these acts are fines of up to 30 thousand leva, confiscation of part or all of the property, as well as imprisonment for up to 15 years.
The property damage caused to citizens totals over 3.5 million leva, and the unpaid tax obligations are over 135 thousand leva. No measure has been imposed on Bliznakova, she has appeared regularly at all court hearings so far.
The court announced that fines of 500 leva will be imposed on witnesses who were regularly summoned and failed to appear at a court hearing.