Controversies Sergei Stanishev

1 controversies

1.1 scandal hochegger
1.2 european elections project scandal
1.3 opinion on sarafovo terrorist act
1.4 criminal prosecution lost documents

controversies
scandal hochegger

in march 2012, scandalous austrian lobbyist peter hochegger found have received €1.5 m former three-way coalition government dubious campaign aimed @ boosting bulgaria s image abroad. report indicated part of sum paid hochegger s company had returned pr agency owned monika yanova, wife of prime minister sergei stanishev. hochegger made headlines in bulgaria after emerged had lobbied bulgaria s eu accession in exchange fee of €1.5 m under 2 contracts 2006 , 2008 signed during term in office of government headed stanishev. viennese regional criminal court sentenced hochegger 2 , half years in prison.

european elections project scandal

a public relations firm led stanishev’s wife, monika stanisheva, won €60,000 contract project european elections in bulgaria. meps epp have rang alarm bell obvious conflict of interest involving of prominent figures in european socialist family. project consists of website explaining functions of european parliament bulgarian audience. according experts, quoted bulgarian press, website built on open source software , contains information copy-pasted eu institutions own websites. contract investigated budgets committee of european parliament. stanishev defended wife saying working on similar projects before got married in 2013. attacked opponents asking if they, suggest should stop working? . stanisheva has announced returning down payment of €29,679.93.

opinion on sarafovo terrorist act

on february 5, 2013 ministry of interior announced had well-founded assumption terrorists carried out sarafovo terrorist act linked terrorist organization hezbollah, following results of investigation. sergei stanishev criticized government s implication poorly founded , imperiling national security. this, in turn, brought criticism joseph daul, leader of european people s party, accused stanishev of siding terrorist organization.

criminal prosecution lost documents

sergei stanishev faced court on 18 march 2014 in so-called lost documents case, many observers , stanishev himself have claimed based on pure political grounds. in written statement, stated in bulgaria clear case against me political.

he charged losing 7 classified documents - 3 state agency national security (dans), 2 interior ministry, 1 defense ministry , 1 nato - while prime minister. in october 2013 stanishev voluntarily gave parliamentary immunity tried in court.

if convicted, have faced two-year jail sentence or fine.

on december 16, 2016 stanishev acquitted, judge stating there no indisputable evidence stanishev lost documents, nor proven conclusively documents contained confidential information .