Ivan Tatarchev

Ivan Tatarschew ( Bulgarian Иван Татарчев ; born August 29, 1930 in Sofia , † December 24, 2008 ibid) was a Bulgarian lawyer and the country's chief prosecutor between 1992 and 1999.

Ivan Tatarschew's family comes from the Macedonian Resen and some like many other Macedonian Bulgarians moved to Bulgaria , which was liberated from the Ottoman Empire in 1878 . His grandfather Mikhail was the brother of Christo Tatartschew , who co-founded the organization BMORK ( Bulgarian Macedonia-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee , later renamed Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization ) in 1893 .

Ivan Tatarschew successfully completed his law studies at the Sofia University "St. Kliment-Ohridski" in 1952 . Between 1954 and 1961 he worked as a lawyer in Malko Tarnowo , Raslog and Rasgrad . In 1961 he was denied the practice of his profession by the ruling communists in the country. He has been arrested and detained several times. The only job that he was allowed to practice and has practiced was that of a stone mason . From 1966 he was able to practice the profession of lawyer again, after which he moved to Sofia and worked there as a lawyer until 1992.

On February 12, 1992 he was appointed Supreme Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria by President Schelju Schelew . As such, he was in office until 1999. He was replaced by Nikola Filchev . During his tenure as the Chief Public Prosecutor, he tried to track down the billions of dollars from former Bulgarian state-owned foreign companies that disappeared after the end of communism.

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