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On the list of seven MPs whose immunity was requested on 7 April 2006. by the Prosecutor General Boris Velchev, is also elected with the list of MRF from the region of Pazardjik Fidel Beev. His name was on the list of people from high political levels against whom legal proceedings are being brought, presented to the EU in Brussels by former Prosecutor General Nikola Filchev. The request to lift Fidel Beev's immunity was motivated by a series of cases and investigations against him, on which work was suspended after his election as a Member of Parliament. In the first place is the criminal case in which against F. Beev District Prosecutor's Office - Pazardzhik filed charges back in October 2004. The accusation is that as mayor of the municipality of Velingrad in 2004. Beev has supplied fuels to municipal sites (kindergartens) by his own company SD "Brothers Beevi" totaling 142,240 levs. This was done without the firm having won a public procurement contract, and the municipal treasury was penalized with 16,352 leva because of the higher prices at which Beev charged (at an offer price of 0.80 leva/litre he charged at prices of 1.14-1.17 leva/litre). The case is a classic example of abuse of office, favoring the "hoop" of "our companies", draining municipal funds and non-compliance with the Public Procurement Act.
The case entered court on March 24, 2005, but was postponed three times. In the beginning, F. Beev refused to receive the summons and it was handed to him on the stairs in front of the court in Pazardzhik when he was coming out of another case. At the first hearing, he appeared without a lawyer and stated that he did not have time to hire one. At the second meeting, his chosen defender Plamen Yalnuzov found himself in Paris. The third hearing was adjourned after the defendant F. Beev presented a copy of a hospital sheet, certified by himself. The fourth session was scheduled for June 30, 2005, but five days before that, the defendant was elected as an MP and as such requested that the case be dismissed because he enjoyed immunity.
Charges of official crimes under art. 220 and 283 of the Criminal Code may cost the MP up to 5 years in prison plus deprivation of the right to hold certain public and state positions.
Other investigative and lawsuits were stopped against Fidel Beev: for inflicting bodily harm, for which the law provides for up to 5 years in prison; for indecent acts grossly disturbing the public order; for threats against the person; for unpaid taxes. These are the arguments by which the Prosecutor General Boris Velchev insists that the DPS-MP should remain without immunity and answer to the law.
The decision will either be made by F himself. Beev - if he himself renounces his MP's inviolability, or the parliament - after a special commission is pronounced.
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