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The Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria Ivan Geshev

Ivan Stoimenov Geshev was born on December 19, 1970.

He is graduating from a higher legal education in and His Excellency Rob Dixon, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to us, opened a conference on the topic of "Cybercrime", which is being held at the Training Base of the Prosecutor's Office in Tsigov Chark in the period 28-30 November 2022. Within the framework of the conference Bulgarian magistrates will be trained in the best practices for combating cybercrime by British experts - Adrian Flesher, a representative of the Crown Prosecution Service, and Eva Labeda from the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom, reported the PRB press center. 

The opening of the forum was also attended by the deputy chief prosecutor and director of the National Investigation Service (NSI) Borislav Sarafov and the head of the "Cybercrimes" department in the NSI Svetoslav Vasilev.

The Ambassador of Great Britain to Bulgaria H.E.

Rob Dixon expressed his satisfaction with the good cooperation between the Bulgarian and British law enforcement authorities.

"It is a pleasure to be here with you, together with colleagues from the Crown Prosecution Service and the UK National Crime Agency, as well as all colleagues from the Bulgarian Prosecution Service and the National Investigation Agency, with whom we work in cooperation on a daily basis," said Rob Dixon .

"We are facing common threats - cybercrime and online crime, the various types of threats in the Internet space.

They are spread all over the world, there are them in the United Kingdom, there are also in Bulgaria.

We're here to learn together to hear about best practices in cybercrime detection and prosecution.

It is a pleasure that we are here together with all our Bulgarian partners to improve our work against cybercrime and serious organized crime," added the ambassador.

Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev

Ivan Stoimenov Geshev was born on December 19, 1970.

He graduated from higher legal education in emphasized that as a result of the unsuccessful legislative changes that closed the specialized justice, the main priority for the prosecutor's office is currently the restoration of specialization in the 28 district prosecutor's offices for investigating the most serious crimes in Bulgaria.

Fortunately, the judiciary is stable.

We are building a new specialization in cybercrime, in organized crime, in terrorism.

That is why trainings are extremely important, as well as drawing from the experience of the best in these fields.

With direct, personal contact, in addition to exchanging experience, it also helps to achieve a faster result in the fight against crime," Geshev pointed out.

He emphasized that the prosecutor's office works in excellent cooperation with all the countries of the European Union, as well as with partner countries such as Great Britain. 

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Adrian Flesher of the Crown Prosecution Service, said that he recently had the opportunity to meet personally with Bulgarian prosecutors and with the Deputy Chief Prosecutor and Director of the NSlS Borislav Sarafov, who were visiting the UK.

"By strengthening Bulgarian-British cooperation, we will be able to improve our work in the prosecution of cybercrimes, which know no borders.

I look forward to getting to know each other and together forging mechanisms to fight cybercrime and serious crime,” said Adrian Flesher. 

The Deputy Prosecutor General and Director of NSLS Borislav Sarafov expressed his gratitude to the Ambassador of the United Kingdom, Rob Dixon, without whose assistance the training conference would not have been possible.

"Special thanks also to colleague Adrian Flesher, whom I had the honor of visiting in February of this year.

The week at the British Public Prosecutor's Office and the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom gave me the necessary knowledge and ideas to structure a little later in the NSlS a unit to fight cybercrime, which is the crime of our time.

Unfortunately for the future as well.

It will be an achievement to be able to draw from the exceptional professional experience and organization at the highest world level that exists in the Crown Prosecution Service and the National Crime Agency in Great Britain," said Borislav Sarafov.  

Ivan Geshev

Specialized Prosecutor's Office