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The Prosecutorial College of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) set the dates for hearing the admitted candidates in the selection procedure for seven delegated European prosecutors. The hearings will be on October 12, Thursday, and October 13, Friday, and the candidates will appear before the College according to a predetermined schedule and in alphabetical order, the SJC announced.

On the first day, a hearing of 12 magistrates is planned, respectively at 9:30 am and 14:00 pm, in the Conference Hall in the building of the SJC on 12 Tsarigradsko shose Str. "Exarch Joseph" No <> in the capital.

The first to be heard Alexander Mihaylov – prosecutor at the Regional Prosecutor's Office – Plovdiv; Anna Kamenova – prosecutor at the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office, Boyko Atanasov – investigator at the Investigation Department at the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office, Brigitta Bayryakova – prosecutor at the Regional Prosecutor's Office – Plovdiv, Valentin Angelov – prosecutor at the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office and Violeta Jeleva – prosecutor at the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office.

In the second group are the candidates: Georgi Balkov – prosecutor at the Regional Prosecutor's Office – Pleven, Ivan Kuchiev – prosecutor at the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office, Ivan Stefanov – Deputy Regional Prosecutor of the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office, Marin Malchev – Prosecutor at the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office, Miroslava Chifchieva-Georgieva – Deputy Regional Prosecutor of the Regional Prosecutor's Office – Pernik and Monika Mihaylova-Mitova – Prosecutor at the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office.

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On Friday, October 13, 2023, the hearing will continue at 9:30 am with the other five candidates – Nevena Zartova – District Prosecutor of the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office, Plamen Petkov – Prosecutor at the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office, Svetomir Babakov – Judge at the Administrative Court – Sofia District and Todor Kuyumdzhiev – Deputy Regional Prosecutor of the Sofia Regional Prosecutor's Office.

On the same day, the Prosecutorial College will hold the vote of the candidates in accordance with the rules for the selection of candidates for the European Delegated Prosecutor.

We recall that in April this year caretaker Minister of Justice Krum Zarkov announced that he had informed the SJC about the need to trigger a new procedure for the selection of candidates for European Delegated Prosecutors.

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