After his visit to the USA between 11.18 and 12.04 of last year, Tsvetan Tsvetanov announced on TV that it is discovered (in cooperation with the Americans) and arrested “the main organizer” of a Bulgarian-American organized crime group. She (Gergana Chervenkova) has a warrant for her arrest in the USA.
1. NARCOTICS CONSPIRACY. Maximum sentence - 10 years in prison.
2. NARCOTICS DISTRIBUTION VIA THE INTERNET. Maximum sentence - 10 years in prison.
3. CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MISBRANDING. Maximum sentence - 5 years in prison.
4. MISBRANDING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. Maximum sentence - 3 years in prison.
5. CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MAIL FRAUD AND WIRE FRAUD. Maximum sentence - 20 years in prison.
6. CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MONEY LAUNDERING. Maximum sentence - 20 years in prison.
TOTAL MAXIMUM SENTENCE: 68 years
Gergana Chervenkova is a 35-year-old mother of two little children and lives with her family in Sofia. She works under a work contract as a Financial Manager without management rights in "BG Global Services" – а commercial agent providing services to the British company Euromedonline Ltd. more for the company and the position.
Gergana Chervenkova has never been hiding from anyone and has never been to the USA, for her to be wanted as a fugitive by the US and to be supposedly in hiding.
Nobody has ever been looking for her.
Unfortunately, nobody bothers to check the facts and at the end of November the US authorities fabricate charges against Gergana for narcotics distribution, money laundering and conspiracy against the USA.
During the trial, the American authorities after a “thorough” investigation of one of the pharmacies discover her email address - gchervenkova@euromedonline.com – and by unknown methods and sources conclude that she is the brain, manager, accountant and director of the company.
Based on the preliminary investigation, the US Federal Court sends an indictment and demands Gergana’s extradition so that she can be tried for the crimes.
On our side the authorities react immediately and on Friday, November 30, 2012 Gergana is arrested by the Ministry of the Interior and in the evening she is released. read more about the topic.
So far, the USA has not presented any. The only evidence shown so far are 4 declarations by the prosecutors and the investigator from DEA who swear that she is guilty! The declarations as such are not considered evidence by the Bulgarian legislation.
After the extradition she is facing 68 years of imprisonment.
You would most likely say none, since she is innocent. But if she is innocent, why has she been incarcerated for so long? Why nobody bothered to check if she really is the managing director of the company? And why two governments are ready to imprison an innocent person for political dividends?
It turns out that if you send an email to a client of yours or to a friend, and an investigation is launched against him, you could be extradited just because your contact details are found on his computer.
Furthermore, somebody may sign a document that you are guilty and this is to be accepted as truth. The people who swear to it are no others but the prosecutors in the trial and the investigation agent. There are no witnesses, no facts, no evidence, a single signature is enough.
After a meeting with lawyers, specializing in extradition proceedings, it turns out that the extradition agreement between the governments of the Republic of Bulgaria and the United States of America has been signed based on the “TRUST” between the two countries and there is an agreement according to which the requested state (in this case Bulgaria) will not require evidence for the actions and will not check if the requested person has committed a crime at all. Thus it turns out that anyone can get extradited for anything no matter if he or she is guilty or not.
http://photos.state.gov/libraries/bulgaria/231771/PDFs/ExtraditionTreatyEng.pdf