Simona Radeva Now in Sliven Prison

Former police officer Simona Radeva is now behind bars at Sliven Prison, where she will serve her effective sentence of 3 years and 6 months under an initial general-regime classification. The information was confirmed by the Ministry of Justice after she was detained yesterday and escorted to the correctional facility.

Former police officer Simona Radeva was detained on Friday and escorted to Sliven Prison, the Justice Ministry said. There, she will serve a sentence for helping Georgi Semerdzhiev, who caused a crash that killed two people in July 2022, cover his tracks. The sentence was imposed by the Sofia City Court a week ago on a charge of personal concealment. The judges accepted as undisputed that she acted entirely deliberately to help Georgi Semerdzhiev cover his tracks after the serious crash on Sofia’s Cherni Vrah Boulevard, in which two young women died. According to the court’s reasoning, the former Interior Ministry employee was clearly aware of the socially dangerous nature of the act and its consequences. The court ruling is final and is not subject to appeal or protest.

During the incident, Semerdzhiev was driving at extremely high speed near the intersection by the Hemus Hotel, hit a taxi, and then his car mounted the pavement, where it killed the two young women on the spot. Semerdzhiev fled but was unable to enter his apartment because his keys had been left in the car. He called Radeva, whom he already knew, and asked her to help him. She agreed to bring him a ladder and conceal him, instead of reporting the case, as was expected of her as a police officer.

BLITZ recalls that in February 2024 a number of witnesses were questioned in the case, including Georgi Semerdzhiev himself, who is meanwhile serving a 20-year sentence for five crimes, including causing death after drug use and driving with a fake driver’s license.