2024-08-30 14:55:35
The Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dimitar Kangaldzhiev, will be relieved of his post. This became clear from a press release of the Council of Ministers. Yavor Serafimov will be appointed in his place.
Kangaldzhiev was considered close to former interior minister Kalin Stoyanov. The replacement of the Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was ordered by the new Minister of the Interior Atanas Ilkov and was agreed with the Acting Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev, the Council of Ministers specified.
Until that moment, Yavor Serafimov was the director of the Main Directorate “Fighting Organized Crime”, and before that he was the deputy director in the same directorate. He entered the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1999 as an intelligence officer in the “Economy” department under From 2006 to 2013, he held the positions of detective in the “Money Laundering” sector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. From 2013 to 2015, he held the position of head of the “Anti-crime” sector. related to the financial system” to the department “Combating crimes in the financial and credit system” at the State Department of Internal Affairs – Ministry of Internal Affairs. From 2015 to 2022, he was the head of the “Money Laundering and Fraud with EU Funds” department at Department 04 “Corruption and Money Laundering” at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. During his career, he was repeatedly awarded with an announcement of gratitude, and monetary awards on behalf of the Directors of NSBOP, NSP, GDKP and the Minister of Internal Affairs, and in 2022 he was awarded the “Honorary Badge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs” III degree, and in 2023 with the “Honorary Badge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs” II degree by the Minister of the Interior.
On the proposal of the Minister of the Interior Atanas Ilkov and by order of the Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev, Lyubomir Yosifov was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of the Interior. Yosifov holds a master’s degree in “Combating crime and protection of public order” from the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior. He held various positions in the structures of the Ministry of the Interior. He also worked in expert positions in the Main Directorate “Execution of Punishments” – Ministry of Justice. In recent years he has worked as a security expert in the private sector.
Stoyan Temelakiev and Hristo Stefanov were released from the position of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs at the suggestion of the Minister of the Interior Atanas Ilkov and by order of the Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev.