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Former public official sentenced for attempting to bribe police officers

Tue, Mar 31 2009 16:40 CET byPetar Kostadinov 824 Views
Former public official sentenced for attempting to bribe police officers

Photo: Maria Subotinova

Iliyana Nakova, former head of finance department at the Supreme Judicial Council, was sentenced to eight months' community service on March 31 2009.

The court in the Black Sea city of Bourgas found Nakova guilty of attempting to bribe a traffic police officer in 2008 after leaving the scene of a minor accident. She threatened traffic police with dismissal and threw 60 leva in the back of their car. Since then she has got the case postponed four times.

Nakova's lawyers claimed that she gave police officers the money not as a bribe but for them to "buy themselves a drink", private national broadcaster bTV said.

Besides the eight months' community service Nakova was fined 2000 leva and 25 per cent of her salary over the next eight months. Nakova said she would appeal against the sentence.

After prosecutors pressed charges against her, Nakova was dismissed from her post at the JSC, the supreme judicial body in the country. She currently works as a legal adviser in Sofia.

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