The current chief of the CPC Control Bureau has been proposed for a second term

The chairman of the National Bureau for Control of Special Intelligence Agency (NBCSS), whose 5 -year term, as well as the members of the body, has expired a year ago, has been raised for a second term of « There is such a people », and will enter a competition with lawyer Tanya Raycheva, proposed by « We continue the change – democratic ».

The Parliamentary Committee on Control of Security Services, the implementation of special intelligence and access to the data under the Electronic Communications Act listened to the candidates for the chairman, the deputy chairman and the members of the National Bureau for Control of the CPC.

Plamen Kolev was asked – how the desk during his term of office defended the rights of the eavesdropped citizens in connection with the infamous case on the protests in 2020, which the special prosecutor’s office initiated under Chapter one of the Penal Code – for crimes against the Republic. In 2020, 270 alerts were received, including from MPs, the bureau found 9 cases of misuse of the CPC, notified the victims and some of them sought their rights and received benefits, Kolev explained.

The truth is that then there was a concealment of information – the special prosecutor’s office did not provide the desk with the requested information, but apparently no one could make it do it, said Atanas Atanasov /PP -DB /.

In the same context, a question was asked of the President’s proposed President Tanya Raycheva. Boyko Rashkov recalled a case of the time when he was chairman of the BCCS and the Bureau had to check a complaint by a citizen, and Attorney General Tsatsarov did not allow « one service »

provided the data by issuing an instruction not to provide preliminary materials to the desk. Boyko Rashkov asked what he intended to do in a similar case the nominee for the chairman.

I consider it unlawful the instructions of the Prosecutor General Tsatsarov, which does not allow the bureau to fulfill its obligations, each institution is obliged to provide the information, Raicheva said.

The candidates for members Angel Kurtishev, Borislav Tsvetanov, Iliya Antonov, proposed respectively by GERB, BSP-subject left, PPDB, were also heard, and Georgi Hristov was nominated for a member and deputy chairman of the bureau. MRF has not proposed its candidate.

The Bureau is a collegial body, which consists of five members, including chairman and deputy chairman, which must by law control by checking the observance of the procedures for the request and implementation of the special intelligence and the terms for the destruction of the acquired information, if they are not served.

Candidates with at least 8 years of legal experience or also 8 years of professional internship in the security services or in the Ministry of Interior and have obtained permission to access classified information with the level secret may be selected as members of the Bureau.

All nominees, with the exception of Tanya Raycheva, who is an acting lawyer and teacher at the UNWE, and to some extent on Plamen Kolev, are currently operating SANS employees and the MoI Structures, which they will have to control as members of the National Bureau for Control of the CPC, Boyko Rashkov noted.