Bulgarian prosecutors charged two senior magistrates on Monday with embezzling European Union funds in a scandal that has further dented public trust in the judiciary system of the EU's poorest member state. Bulgaria is under fire from the EU, which it joined in 2007, over its failure to reform its inefficient judicial system and to convict senior officials of graft, managing to jail only a few crime bosses since the fall of communism in 1989. Military prosecutors said Veselin Pengezov, chairman of the Sofia appeals court, and Petar Petkov, head of the military appeals court, had been charged after a four-year investigation into misuse of the EU funds. Last week, Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said a total of 81 witnesses had been questioned in the case. Read More http://ift.tt/1m0VJKo
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