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Sofia City Court rules to keep Varna mayor Blagomir Kotsev in detention

published on 9/12/25 6:16 PM

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The Sofia City Court rejected Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev's request to amend his preventive measure of "detention in custody" and remanded him in custody, BTA reported. The ruling is not final and is subject to appeal.

Sofia City Court receives requests to alter the detention measures of Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev and two other defendants

Blagomir Kotsev was detained in connection with an investigation into a corruption crime in the city of Varna.

According to Judge Ani Zaharieva, there is still a reasonable assumption that Blagomir Kotsev is complicit in the crime for which he is accused, based on the oral and written evidence in the case. According to her, there is no danger of absconding, but the question of the danger of committing a crime is not the same.

"If the court accepts that he should remain in custody in order to give the prosecutor's office the opportunity to continue working, this will be a completely illegal ruling, and this was the prosecutor's only motive," commented the lawyer for the Varna mayor, Ina Lulcheva, before the court's decision.

Sofia Appellate Court leaves Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev in custody

Edited by Diana Tsankova
English: R. Petkova

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