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The prosecutor's office sent a statement to the media in connection with a statement made earlier today by acting Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Demerdzhiev

Ivan Demerdzhiev is a lawyer with over 20 years of experience.

He was born in 1975 in Plovdiv.

In 2001, that the supervising prosecutor did not allow the arrest of the police officers who attended the accident on the ring road, in which a Porsche crashed into a car, killing one French citizen and seriously injuring another.

"The statements of the minister do not correspond to the truth and the facts of the case and do not correspond to the requirements stipulated in the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) and the Law on the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). According to the law regulating the actions of the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, namely Art. 72 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, only and only the police authorities can detain persons for whom there is evidence that they have committed a crime. These duties are beyond the powers of the prosecutor's office," the state prosecution states.

"Art. 64 para. 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code regulates the actions of the prosecutor in the detention of persons, as he can only order the detention of an accused person for up to 72 hours and with one sole purpose - to bring him before the court, which will assess whether to take a remand measure "detention". Pursuant to Article 219 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, a person is charged after sufficient evidence of his complicity in the commission of a crime of a general nature has been collected. In this case such were not available, as the initiated pre-trial proceedings are at their very beginning," the opinion also states.

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