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On 22 December in the District Court - Pazardzhik continued the criminal case against Galya Kyuleva - a member of the Municipal Electoral Commission - Velingrad, accused of taking a bribe from Fidel Beev. This was the second meeting where four witnesses were heard: Paulina Poptomova, Zdravka Vodeva and Mehmed Dzhivgov as members of the OIC and the chairman of the Municipal Council Nejat Kehayov. Mrs. Poptomova very detailed told the events between June 11 and 18 - the dates on which the OIC met on the signal that the then Mayor Fidel Beev in violation of the LMSMA continues to be a manager of a company and to carry out commercial activities. She explained that on June 15 in the evening Galya Kyuleva told her that F. Beev in the presence of Stoyan Dulev and Nejat Kehayov has promised her a job in the municipality. The next day Kyuleva met again with Beev, who behaved rudely but reached a consensus: he promised to appoint her if he supported him with his vote in the OIC. The same day, Zdravka Vodeva shared with them that it is rumored that members of the OIC will be bought by F. Beev. Galya Kyuleva explained that she would ask him for a written declaration with the promise of a job to prove to the OIC what kind of person he was. On a date with her St. Dulev and M. Dzhivgov also insisted on voting for F. Beev, all the time it was only about work, not money. Ms. Poptomova also recalled how Galya Kyuleva came to the OIC meeting on June 18, showed her colleagues the traces of handcuffs and told about the invasion of police officers in her home and the detention for the whole night in custody. M. Dzhivgov, secretary of the OIC and accountant in the municipality, explained that on the evening of June 11, at the insistence of Stoyan Dulev, they went to the homes of Galya Kyuleva and Zdravka Vodeva. We wanted to tell them that the committee meeting should be postponed so that F could. Beev to present evidence that he has come out of the companies, explained M. Dzhivgov. He could not reproduce the exact conversations and replied that he did not remember whether threats were made to Zdravka Vodeva to be fired from her job if she voted against Beev. Just then I was getting married and everything is a bit fuzzy, Mr. Dzhivgov explained.
About the meeting in question on the evening of June 11, Zdravka Vodeva told in detail. Dulev and Dzhivgov called her after 22 hours and insisted on seeing each other. Coming in front of their home, the meeting was also attended by Mrs. Vodeva's husband (Atanas Vodev gave testimony at the previous court hearing). Dzhivgov was very well treated, and Dulev very clearly told me that I had to make the "right decision" in order not to be fired from my work in the municipality, Zdravka Vodeva said. Dulev is Beev's right-hand man, so it became clear to me what the "right decision" was; but even if they had not come, we would still have postponed the meeting, because we are not people who will lightly decide to overthrow the mayor without evidence, explained the witness in response to a question from the prosecutor Ivan Daskalov.
At the OIC meeting on June 12, Mrs. Vodeva said she had been pressured the night before. The same was told by Galya Kyuleva, who was visibly worried because Dulev and Dzhivgov visited her around 23 pm, and at that time her husband was abroad and she was alone at home.
In the following days, Mayor Fidel Beev several times called Zdravka Vodeva to his office. The conversations she described as psychological harassment because every time Mr. Beev suggested to her that there were enough votes in the OIC, that he had power in the court, the prosecution and the media; that he was not worried about new elections and it would even be better for him if Dulev was V.I.D. mayor, and he commands it from a distance. On their last conversation, F. Beev again asked Vaudeva how she would vote, and when she replied that she would vote according to the law, he became visibly angry. He said we didn't have a majority because there were people bought in the OIC and that I was going to lose my job. Ivan Tatarchev, lawyer of G. Kyuleva, persistently asked if during these conversations Mr. Beev used obscene expressions and ethnic insults. Mrs. Vodeva replied in the affirmative, but did not wish to quote them on the grounds that they were extremely offensive. Were there qualifications "You, the Bulgarians...", the lawyer asked and again received an affirmative answer. The witness said she shared Beev's threats over coffee with G. Kyuleva, P. Poptomova and the chairwoman of OIC Iv. Stancheva. Galya became very angry and told everyone that she would get Beev to sign a declaration of work and so expose him with what methods he used. For money was not mentioned at all, Kyuleva only shared that several times stones were thrown at her house.
In questioning Zdravka Vodeva recalled that G. Kyuleva told her how when on June 17 F. Beev went to her home, asked for a glass of water. She turned to pour and suggested that it was then that the bag of money wrapped in newspaper had been left. On June 18, Galya Kyuleva told the OIC she was very upset and told how to break into her home, how they made her sign a protocol, put handcuffs on her and about the nightmare she experienced in custody.
The judge asked if Mrs. Vodeva had been fired from her job after the vote. Ms. Vodeva replied that her interim contract expired on July 21 and she was fired from V.I.D. Stoyan Dulev on 13 August, as he stressed to her that he wanted to fire her on exactly the 13th, Friday.
Nejat Kehayov told that he was present at one of the talks between F. Beev and G. Kyuleva. He entered the mayor's office on a business matter, there was St. Dulev. Beev was trying to make a sounding of Kyuleva's opinion, she did not give a definite answer. It came up that he was out of a job and Beev said he would help, but he didn't make a firm commitment. Mr. Kehayov failed to remember whether Beev or Kyuleva raised the issue of work.
The C left without respect the request of the lawyer Ivan Tatarchev for certifying the criminal past and present of the witness Fidel Beev in view of his testimony. The case continued on 27 January 2005. with questioning of the witness Georgi Gagov, who presented a hospital sheet.
Elena Baeva