Acting Prosecutor General Borislav Sarafov took part in the 19th Meeting of the Consultative Forum of Prosecutors General and Heads of Prosecutor's Offices of the EU Member States, which was held at the Eurojust premises in The Hague, Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Borislav Sarafov held a series of bilateral meetings with Heads of Prosecutors' Offices from EU member states and representatives of European institutions, including the Prosecutors General of Lithuania and Romania.
The Acting Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria also met with the Danish delegation and its representative at Eurojust, expressing gratitude for the prompt and effective assistance provided by the competent judicial authorities in Denmark for the extradition of a Bulgarian citizen wanted for murder, based on a European Investigation Order issued by the Bulgarian authorities.
Within the framework of the 19th Meeting of the Consultative Forum, greetings were delivered by Michael Schmidt, President of Eurojust, Jacek Biełewicz, Deputy Prosecutor General of Poland, Jan Reckendorff, Director of the Danish Public Prosecutor's Office, Co-Presidents of the Council of Europe, and others.
The current state of the European Union's initiatives in the field of criminal justice was presented by Ana Gallego Torres, Director-General of the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission.
The two-day forum focused on the criminal consequences of the military conflict in Ukraine, the current state of investigations related to the violation or circumvention of European Union sanctions against Russia, as well as the criminal law regulation of this type of crime in the European Union.
The Prosecutors General agreed that each Member State, as part of the European family, should make efforts to ensure the security of society and the stability of the Union in the spirit of democratic values and upholding the rule of law. The discussion between the participants also touched on the challenges that investigative authorities face in criminal prosecution of crimes in cyberspace, fraud through fake investment platforms and the new form of crime, defined as "crime as a service". Examples of practice on the topic were presented by Finland, Belgium and Romania.
The Heads of the EU prosecution services committed to developing even closer cooperation in the criminal justice field, with emphasis on the fight against organized cross-border crime, as well as on the accelerated exchange of good practices between the competent judicial authorities in the Member States of the European Union.