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The district court in Kardzhali handed down suspended sentences to three defendants for the negligent death of 51-year-old V.K.Yu.

This is stated in a court decision published on the website of the judicial institution.

BTA recalls that the accident in which the man died was at the end of September 2015. Then, during destructive activities at an old lead production workshop at the Lead-Zinc Combine (BCC), a concrete wall trapped an excavator while the worker operating it was trying to knock down a supporting column.

It took rescue teams more than three hours to retrieve the man's body.

H.D.H., I.N.K. were brought as defendants in the case.

and B.G.K.. The former was found guilty of having, due to ignorance and negligent execution, committed violations in the performance of the duties of the company managed and represented by him - a contractor for the dismantling and demolition of existing buildings, in as a result of which he carelessly caused the death of V.K.Yu.

For the committed crime H.D.H.

was sentenced to "imprisonment" for a term of two years and six months, with a three-year probationary period.

The verdicts of I.N.K.

and B.G.K are also for causing death due to negligence, but in fulfillment of obligations under a contract to carry out dismantling and demolition of existing buildings.

Their sentences are "imprisonment" for a term of one year and six months for I.N.K.

and "imprisonment" for a term of one year for B.G.K.

both with three years probation.

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The court sentenced all three defendants to jointly and severally pay to the civil plaintiffs in the case sums representing non-property damages caused as a result of the crime, as well as the expenses incurred in the pre-trial and court proceedings.

 The judgment of the court is not final and is subject to appeal and/or protest before the Court of Appeal - Plovdiv.

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