The Supreme Administrative Court finally decided in favor of the former rector of the “proverbial” Southwest University “Neofit Rilski” – Blagoevgrad Borislav Yurukov in his cases against the already disbanded KPCONPI.
Prof. Dr. Borislav Yurukov’s problems with the commission date back to the time of Sotir Tsatsarov. In July 2021, it was officially announced that he paid himself additional remuneration within 3 years – between 2017 and 2020. He published…
“… in his own private interest numerous orders and approved the lists of names to them… with which he defined for himself additional wages (DTV).”
Thus he rewarded himself with over 140,000 BGN.
In the end, the Commission found a conflict of interest, imposed two fines on him, each in size BGN 5,000. for the established conflict and the material benefits received from the conflict of interest in the total amount have been taken away in favor of the state BGN 142,300., as well as the net remuneration received by the applicant for the time of the conflict in total amount BGN 16,876.54
However, Yurukov attacked the act before the administrative courts, and two instances are unanimous that the sanction should be dropped – first AS-Blagoevgad, and now the Supreme Court. The reasons are that “the devil is in the details”, or in other words – procedural violations.
KPCONPI has committed such a significant violation, expressed in “non-specification, non-individualization and contradictory coverage of the acts”.
“On the one hand, it is not clear how many acts the person was sanctioned for – whether it concerns separate acts representing independent violations, each of which separately implements the factual composition of the conflict of interests, or a single violation representing, from an objective and subjective side, a continuing violation.
On the other hand, the one given by the anti-corruption commission legal qualification of the violations contradicts their description in the circumstantial part,” the supreme judges wrote today.
I.e. – this violation is recognized as essential because both the right to defense of the person is limited and the judicial review of the disputed act is prevented (KPCONPI’s fine). Even the latter is an independent reason for its cancellation, the supreme judges remind.
A completely separate case from this one is that there is currently a prosecutor’s office in the State University of Ukraine, which is investigating an incredible “printing house” for diplomas, falsification of documents, official crimes, etc.
