Anti-Corruption Commission

"I want the chief prosecutor to be replaced and a prosecutor's office to work in the best way. As long as we do not have a working chief prosecutor's office, we cannot catch a single thief," Kiril Petkov, the leader of We Continue the Change", said in an interview with Nova TV.

"We Continue the Change" will offer the signing of a coalition agreement, which will include all important topics for our country, announced the co-chairman of the formation Kiril Petkov on the air of "Nova TV".

The head of the Anti-Corruption Commission in North Macedonia, Biljana Ivanovska, on Friday said that before launching an official inquiry into the country's COVID vaccine troubles, they had "started collecting information on the affair" in which Health Minister Venko Filipce is accused of trying to procure Chinese vaccines through a questionable intermediary firm.

The new head of the country's Anti-Corruption Commission, which has made a strong start, says corruption has become 'a way of life in the country' - and changing it won't be easy.

Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov has ordered checks into property acquisitions by the Head of the anti-corruption commission, Plamen Georgiev, the son of the National Investigation Service director Borislav Sarafov and the wife of Supreme Court of Cassation head Lozan Panov, reports BNT. 

Deputy Minister of Justice Desislava Ahladova on 25th of March was appointed as temporary acting Minister of Justice. She will replace Tsetska Tsacheva, who resigned on Saturday, reports BNT. 

Ahladova will remain in office until the Parliament votes the resignation of Tsetska Tsacheva and the cabinet nominates a new minister of justice.

Bulgarian Justice Minister Tsetska Tsacheva has resigned following media reports that she and three other ruling center-right GERB party politicians have purchased luxury apartments at below market prices, the government's press office said.

The Anti-Corruption Commission will check Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov for a conflict of interest, reports Darik. 

The inspection comes after the news that for six years now Goranov lives for free in a home he did not purchase in Sofia.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has requested the court to seize the property of Traicho Traikov, former Minister of Economy. The Commissione found that the he could not prove the origin of property at the value of BGN 2,372,004, reports BNT. 

Sofia City Court seeks seizure to the state, the Commission told BNT on 16th of November.

By a decision of the government, Petar Haralampiev was released from the post of chairperson of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, the government press office said on 5th of November. Haralampiev's position will be temporarily filled by the Deputy Chairperson of the Agency, Dimitar Vladimirov, until new Chair is appointment.