2024-04-15 18:19:47
“All this is done in order to allow manipulations with the paper ballots, by pressing the schemes of some in one place and letting our schemes work in other places. The whole scandal was used purely politically to remove the Chief Secretary.”
This is what the investigative journalist and editor-in-chief of the newspaper “168 Chasa” Slavi Angelov said in “120 Minutes” on bTV.
His comment is on the occasion of the scandal surrounding the chief secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose name was linked to people detained for smuggling, after photos of him with them appeared.
“These pictures are not proof of anything and will not prove anything. They are evidence of the immoral behavior of the Chief Secretary. Here we can only look for a lack of morals and a lack of professionalism. This person cannot receive such gifts from such people, he should not communicate and travel to expensive destinations with them,” added the journalist.
I am afraid that there is also some factual evidence against him to encourage him to become a protected witness, Slavi Angelov also said.
According to Angelov, Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov should also resign.
“Information came out that he also knows this hospitable family from Haskovo very well. In addition, the opposition has been talking about his serious economic and political commitments for many months. In this situation, it was normal for him to resign and for professionals who are not politically burdened to enter the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to ensure that the election process will be free of machinations,” the investigative journalist pointed out.
Who is the alleged smuggler Nikola Nikolov Pascal?
“He’s a lot smarter and more cautious than, say, the Doctor was. Pascal does not like to appear, he lives more in Greece than in Bulgaria. He is much more careful, he does not like to stand out. These channels generate monstrous revenues and they go into the state administration. I remember the customs officials had turned it into a private checkpoint because the trucks were going through some routes they had made, they told the border officials “those are our trucks”. He has too many people guarding him and that’s the reason his name has been in the shadows for too long. The reason that all this is happening now may be some economic interest, which he did not fulfill,” said Slavi Angelov.
According to the journalist, there is little chance that the case will end with effective sentences. According to him, it is precisely the lack of efficiency in justice that is the real problem.