After the Bulgarian authorities issued a nationwide search warrant for him in 2009, Ivanov turned himself in to police. His trial began in May 2010, and was marked with several interruptions. On October 22, 2010 one of the jurors, Petar Georgiev, was arrested for child pornography and the trial had to start anew a month later. The 107 witnesses and the 52 experts in the case were questioned again.
In March 2011, the trial was postponed due to health issues of one of the other defendants in the case, Borislav Sekulov. At that time, the office of Sekulov’s attorney Tsvetelina Nikolova was broken into and important documents were stolen, causing further delays. In addition, in October 2011, Ivanov was moved to house arrest due to health problems following surgery.
The prosecution asked for a 17 year sentence on February 7. The sentence can be appealed with the Sofia Court of Appeals.