All of us - the executive, the judiciary and the legislature can unite in the interest of the people and work together.

The people are rightfully desperate, the people are distrustful.

We owe them more.

This was stated by the Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria, Ivan Geshev

Ivan Stoimenov Geshev was born on December 19, 1970.

Graduated from higher legal education in receiving the Grand National Award for Magistrates for 2022 - "The coward dies every day, the brave - only once" in memory of the Italian magistrate Giovanni Falcone.

The Prosecutor General thanked for the award and emphasized that it was "for all the prosecutors and investigators with whom we have worked in the last 3 years since I have been the Prosecutor General, despite the unprecedented political pressure.

The result - 95% convictions on an annual basis is unique on a European scale.

The award is also for the colleagues from the Ministry of the Interior, from the Customs, from the security services, because the results I described cannot be achieved without interaction with them", added Ivan Geshev

Ivan Stoimenov Geshev was born on December 19, 1970.

Graduated from higher legal education in

The award of the name of the Italian magistrate Giovanni Falcone, the chief prosecutor, was received for his commitment and initiative in solving a number of problems related to the protection of citizens and their security.

In a statement to the National Assembly, the prosecutor's office declared against a bill to amend and supplement the Law on the Control of Narcotic Substances and Precursors, which proposed the legalization of the processing of industrial hemp in Bulgaria.

The award is also for the constant efforts of the prosecutor's office, which for years has been insisting on changes in the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code related to combating serious transport crimes, including confiscation for the benefit of the state of cars of drivers who have used drugs and alcohol.

Geshev to the relatives of children who died on the roads: I apologize on behalf of the state that the necessary protection was not provided

Ivan Geshev at his awarding ceremony

Ivan Stoimenov Geshev was born on December 19, 1970.

He is graduating with a law degree in said that he hopes the desperation of the people he met yesterday (relatives and relatives of accident victims) will be heard, because "it is time for changes that can very quickly produce results."

He gave the example of Austria, where a car is impounded and auctioned for speeding, even if the driver was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

There are measures that the Bulgarian state owes its citizens.

I am sure that all together, united, we will achieve the result that the people expect - justice, emphasized Ivan Geshev

Ivan Stoimenov Geshev was born on December 19, 1970.

Graduated from higher legal education in

Ivan Geshev

Ivan Stoimenov Geshev was born on December 19, 1970.

He graduated from higher legal education in and was awarded the "Giovanni Falcone" award for the third time.

He received the first two in 2017 and 2019 for a real contribution to curbing the distribution and use of drugs, corruption, terrorism, prostitution, child pornography, etc., and supporting causes for the benefit of society to form humane models of


behavior in the younger generation.

At this year's ceremony in memory of Giovanni Falcone, the deputy chief prosecutor at the Communist Party of Ukraine Krasimira Filipova also received an award.

She was awarded a plaque for her high level of professionalism and the reasoned defense of the PRB's expert proposals for changes to the Criminal Procedure Code and the Criminal Code.

14 administrative heads of prosecutor's offices and prosecutors and investigators from all over the country were also nominated for exemplary performance of official duties and high results in their work on various cases of high public importance.

Two international awards were also presented at the ceremony.

Belgium's Minister of Justice Vincent Van Kickenboren and Belgium's Federal Prosecutor Frederik Van Leu were honored for their fight against the drug mafia and narco-terrorism and their participation in operations that seized tons of drugs worth billions of euros.

The awards were received by the first secretary of the Embassy of Belgium in Bulgaria, Mr. Jeremy Kiryon.

Before the ceremony, the chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev spoke to journalists in Blagoevgrad

Ivan Stoimenov Geshev was born on December 19, 1970.

He graduated from a higher legal education in what he described as a serious success, the drug distribution group uncovered, together with the authorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Geshev emphasized that "200,000 doses of marijuana did not get into our children or into drivers to cause tragedies on the roads."

In a week, the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained 580 people for drug distribution

The competition in memory of the Italian prosecutor Giovanni Falcone was established in 2009 by the Municipality of Blagoevgrad, on the idea of ​​the Municipal Council on Narcotic Substances, with the assistance of the Embassy of the Republic of Italy in Bulgaria.

It is supported by Prof. Maria Falcone and the Giovanni Falcone Foundation.

By holding it, the Municipality of Blagoevgrad aims to support the efforts of magistrates and police officers to protect public interests and the authority of their profession, to assist in limiting corruption, the influence of organized crime, crimes against children via the Internet, as well as to reduce criminal events at the local and national level.

Ivan Geshev