2024-04-12 01:47:50
The Minister of the Interior knew the arrested persons, but Boyko Rashkov met him with them
Asen Vassilev lobbied Kalin Stoyanov to appoint a specific person as director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Haskovo. This became clear from the hearing of the Minister of the Interior in the parliamentary committee on the corruption scandal in the “Customs” Agency.
The employee is Nedan Hadjiev, who is claimed by “Ima talikny narod” to be close to the arrested together with Petya Bankova, Stefan Dimitrov and his father Marin. They are from Haskovo.
When I became a minister and changes began in the leadership, Asen Vassilev asked me what will happen in Haskovo, will there be changesStoyanov said.
There is someone you can count on. It is about Nedan HadjievAsen Vassilev told him then.
The headmaster was a boy who was absent due to a health problem. In one of the conversations with Asen Vassilev, he told me: “Is it true that anyone will become deputy director?” Because here it is spinning in space that you put him in office because of the elections”. After the local vote, I appointed the person in question. After that, there was another conversation between me and Asen Vassilev. He asks me why I don’t appoint Nedan Hadjiev. There were comments that he asked me for one thing and I didn’t do itKalin Stoyanov explained to the deputies.
Exactly
because of this
the inner one
he was a minister
questioned by
the prosecutor’s office after the arrests of Bankova and father and son Dimitrovi. Before him, the former head of the ODMVR in Haskovo, Angel Ganchev, who was the director there 3 years ago, testified. In them, he indicated that the Dimitrovs were staffing the local police.
He also recounted rumors in Haskovo and the region that the two had a hand in the appointment of customs chiefs, especially at the nearby Kapitan Andreevo border crossing.
However, instead of Nedan Hadjiev, Chavdar Georgiev, who has been in his position until now, became the director of the ODVRM in Haskovo.
Hadjiev was the director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Haskovo from January to September 2022, when Boyko Rashkov was the Minister of Internal Affairs. After that, the caretaker government and Ivan Demerdzhiev transferred him to another office in a neighboring district.
Asen Vasilev wanted to appoint a relative of Dimitrovi as the head of ODMVR-Haskovo. He appointed Petya Bankova in customs. There are pictures of him with the smugglers in front of the building of the Customs Agency, summed up the chairman of the commission, Toshko Yordanov. At the beginning of the session, he read parts of the protocol of the court, which on Saturday left two of the detainees in custody.
“24 Chasa” contacted Asen Vasilev for comment, but he did not answer his mobile phone. However, the deputies decided to listen to him as well.
Before the start of the meeting, Minister Kalin Stoyanov announced that
there is information
for meetings at home
of Boyko Rashkov
They discussed a plan for him to be discredited and not remain in his post after the rotation. In front of the MPs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the chief clarified that at these meetings it was also discussed who will be the next minister, his deputies and the chief secretary.
Konstantin Bachiiski from the PP asked the interior minister if he went to the home of Marin and Stefan Dimitrovi together with a former adviser to the ex-interior minister.
I have no recollection of such a meeting. I know Stefan and Marin Dimitrovi from Boyko Rashkov. Stefan came much more often. If I was that close to them, I would have been in one of the pictures that leaked into the public domainanswered Kalin Stoyanov, and Bachiyski announced that he would ask for a face-to-face match between him and the former adviser, who claimed the opposite.
The Minister of the Interior saw Stefan Dimitrov many times in the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, when Rashkov was minister. At that time, Stoyanov was the director of GDBOP. Now he promised the deputies to check who, when and how entered the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, because every visitor is recorded in a book.
In recent days, Boyko Rashkov himself has claimed, including to “24 Chasa”, that he has known Marin Dimitrov since 2021, when he made an appointment on his admission day to testify. Then the former head of IARA said that in 2010, Boyko Borisov threatened the former head of DF “Agriculture” Svetoslav Simeonov to withdraw his testimony against the then Minister of Agriculture Miroslav Naydenov. He was investigated for a proposed bribe of BGN 200,000. He also admitted that Marin Dimitrov and his son visited his home on the occasion of his birthday. Zhivko Kotsev brought them, and Rashkov received them.
The name of the former chief secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zhivko Kotsev, was also discussed by the deputies. They were interested in whether there had been reports of corruption against him over the years while he was the head of various structures, and Minister Stoyanov promised to investigate and inform them.
Kotsev testified as a witness after the Anti-Corruption Commission investigators searched his office because of his contacts with Stefan Dimitrov and his father Marin.
The morning of
same day Kotsev
Came to me
and said he should go to the Anti-Corruption Commission. A little later I found out that he was already in the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office and asked to contact and talk to him. He told me he wanted to go on leave for 3 days. I knew there was a late night search. I was also in the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the time, precisely for this reason. They called me and said it was good to be in the ministry. The conversation was only in the evening, when all the procedural actions were finished and when he signed a statement that he wanted to leave for his own reasons. I have not pressured him in any wayassured Kalin Stoyanov.
The deputies did not betray themselves this time and entered into political arguments among themselves. According to Venetsia Angova from PP-DB, “this story is sewn with white threads, and the prosecutor’s office is a political player. Pascal has been a smuggler for 30 years, but not for DANS and the prosecutor’s office. Such criminal activity cannot exist without corruption. Didn’t the previous rulers know? Do Peevski and Borisov know Pascal? How many such schemes did Borisov break up as prime minister?Angova asked, and Hamid Hamid from DPS replied that she was reading what Lena Borislavova had written to her.
Yes, this channel has probably been active for a very long time. But now there is a specific case, for a specific director of customs, with specific poodles, with specific chargessummarized Toshko Yordanov.
You make suggestions. How long has Yordan Tsonev been preparing for today’s commission? Now we’re together, if we’re being photographed, does that mean we’re close? Angova continued. And Yordan Tsonev replied that he had not witnessed a bigger corruption scandal.
Finally, Rumen Gechev from BSP summarized: This is the result of the severe divorce of the assembly. And he asked the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs if Pascal was an agent of the services and what kind of work he did. Stoyanov promised a new inspection of the agency apparatus.
The interim committee will meet on Tuesday and Friday due to the short time remaining in the 49th National Assembly. In addition to Asen Vassilev, the chairman of DANS Plamen Tonchev, of KPK Anton Slavchev, the new minister of finance and director of customs, the former chief secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Petar Todorov, who according to Stanislav Balabanov of ITN, also testified in the investigation, will be invited to the next meetings.