Sofia City Court is hearing Thursday a malfeasance case against Stefan Sofianski after the previous session was adjourned due to his obligations to the European Parliament.

The former mayor of Sofia was sent to Strasbourg as MEP on the ticket of tiniest right wing Bulgarian People's Union.

Facing charges in several cases of malfeasance, last year Stefan Sofianski was stripped of immunity on his own demand. Pleading he has a MEP immunity, his lawyer has asked for the trial to be suspended.

But a supreme court later said that Bulgarian MEPs do not enjoy the same immunity as their colleagues because they were not elected in direct polls.

Signals that the amount set by the municipal council for the deal of Millennium Centre did not answer to the sum that was actually paid propped the court to delay the hearing until the matter is investigated.

Sofianski was already acquitted on the malfeasance charges over the deal with the capital's large department store Halite. The mayor had been completing a collective decision adopted by the municipal council and could not be sentenced for meeting his office duties, the court decided in June.

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