Probe introduced this week has led to short-term suspension of Bulgarian member of EPPO.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Workplace (EPPO) has quickly suspended its Bulgarian member Teodora Georgieva pending the result of an administrative inquiry, the EPPO stated in an emailed assertion.
On Tuesday the EPPO stated it had knowledgeable the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Fee that it was investigating Georgieva having opened an inquiry into doable wrongdoing, with out elaborating.
In at present’s emailed assertion, the EPPO stated “it has applied the complete spectrum of inner measures to safeguard the integrity of its investigations.”
“Because the strongest measure obtainable towards any threat or notion of compromised integrity of investigations, the supervising Bulgarian European Prosecutor has been quickly suspended,” the emailed assertion stated, including: “That is with out prejudice to the result of the executive enquiry.”
The EPPO is the EU’s impartial public prosecution workplace and is accountable for investigating and prosecuting crimes towards the monetary pursuits of the bloc, the workplace stated no additional particulars shall be made public at this stage.
“We’ve seen the experiences,” a Fee spokesperson informed Euronews, including that “the Fee has been knowledgeable of the launch of an administrative enquiry by the European Public Prosecutors Workplace.”
“The EPPO is totally impartial from the Fee, from different establishments and our bodies of the Union, and from the Member States. It’s for the EPPO to determine whether or not to droop a European Prosecutor that’s topic to an administrative enquiry. We’ve no remark to supply at this stage,” the spokesperson added.
