Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial court dismissed Judge Miroslava Todorova from the judicial system in a controversial move on Thursday.

Todorova, Chair of the Bulgarian Judges Association and judge at the Sofia City Court, was dismissed for delaying Court cases.

She was accused of writing motives in the course of 4 years and 8 months, leading to the dismissal of a kidnapping case on grounds of prescription. She was also involved in presiding over a murder case, where she wrote motives in 4 years, and was further probed for writing motives in the case against drug lord, Vasil Manikatov, in 2 years and 5 months.

The Judge gained reputation as the strongest critique of the Supreme Judicial Council and Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov.

In February, Todorova filed a libel lawsuit against Tsvetanov, as he had publicly accused her of incompetence and of patronizing organized crime because of the delayed presentation of the written motives in the aforementioned Manitakov case.

Todorova’s ousting is seen by many as an attack on those wanting to reform the judicial system. She has already been penalized by a wage reduction.

Earlier on Thursday, The Bulgarian Helsinki Committee reacted strongly to the news that Miroslava Todorova was about to be dismissed, issuing a statement that those in power in the country are acting as mafia punishment unit, making a brutal attempt to disarm the effort of the judiciary to elect honorable individuals for the new Supreme Judicial Council.

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