2024-06-27 13:03:52
District Court docket – Varna as soon as once more returned to the prosecutor’s workplace the indictment for the air pollution of Lake Varna for the elimination of dedicated violations. This was introduced by the press heart of the establishment.
That is the second time that the act on the air pollution of the Varna Lake by a sewage pipe has been returned.
This time, solely the previous mayor of Varna, Ivan Portnih, stood earlier than the court docket as a defendant.
With a decree from March this 12 months, the prosecutor’s workplace separated the supplies from the pre-trial proceedings in opposition to the opposite two defendants within the case and despatched them underneath the competence of the Administration of the European Delegated Prosecutors of Bulgaria.
The civil declare filed by the Municipality of Varna for damages prompted because of the dedicated crimes was not admitted for joint examination.
In line with the court docket panel, given the factual and authorized complexity of the case, consideration of the civil declare would delay and complicate the court docket proceedings.
There are 55 volumes of supplies submitted to the court docket from the investigation.
The three-judge panel unanimously agreed that the state prosecution had didn’t adjust to the court docket’s directions from the earlier disposition listening to on February 14 this 12 months.
And within the new indictment, substantial however remediable procedural violations have been once more admitted – contradictions between the information offered within the circumstantial a part of the indictment and its operative half.
In line with the court docket, there’s a important violation within the discrepancy between the indictment of Ivan Portnich within the pre-trial proceedings and what’s acknowledged within the now filed indictment.
The court docket’s choice will be appealed or protested inside seven days from immediately.