Ivaylo Mirchev for the Cigarette Channel: Make an attempt the case to suppress

« An attempt is made the case with the smuggling cigarette channel in Plovdiv, explaining with » poor communication « and a parallel operation of another special service. There is a 100% umbrella in the State Security Service, the Ministry of Interior, the prosecutor’s office and the influential politicians. » These conclusions were made by the MP from « We continue the change – Democratic Bulgaria » Ivaylo Mirchev after the closed parliamentary hearing of the employees of the Directorate General for Combating Organized Crime, which revealed the smuggling channel in Plovdiv. The Committee on Internal Security and Public Order also heard their superiors. Interior Minister Daniel Mitov also had to answer questions, but after the meeting was late for more than four hours, he left for work commitments in Brussels.

« After the police discover the smuggling channel, instead of being rewarded against them, investigations and pressure from higher levels in the Ministry of Interior began. The bosses (who made an attempt to thwart the operation) did nothing before the case was discovered in a fighter.

According to him, the eight police officers have fulfilled their obligations and have not succumbed to the attempts of their bosses the operation to be sabotaged. « From now on, we will demand additional information from all involved. One must be very clear – we will not leave things like that. We have a commitment to those eight worthy men who have conscientiously done their work in the fight against organized crime. We will leave nothing to be suppressed. – Pressure world, « Mirchev ends.

His colleague from PP-DB Bozhidar Bozhanov commented to journalists that the coalition has doubts that after the 8 police have broken the cigarette channel, the umbrella over him continued. He explained his doubts that there were initially disciplinary inspections against police officers, and the prosecutor’s office was delaying documents.

« We can say that a brilliant operation performed by operational workers is defective by a weak leadership, » said the head of the interior committee Manoil Manov of GERB. According to him, the other important conclusion is that the new management of the Ministry of the Interior, in the face of Daniel Mitov, gives no reason to worry about the career of the eight police officers. « He has met them and they have nothing to worry about about his future career, » Manov said. He added that the case was the result of experiments with the Ministry of Interior, which was the political police during the time of Boyko Rashkov.